Wine is what is known as the “drink of the Gods”. With a long and distinguished history, to truly appreciate wine, you need to know a little about it. Naturally you know that wine comes from fermented grapes. Grapes ferment on their own without having to add any extra sugar, nutrients, acids or enzymes. The [...]
A lot of people have an interest in making wine at home but their are few concerns that stops them right in their boots before even trying this process out. The most common ones are home made wine doesn’t taste good, its not legal to make booze at home and is it really that safe. [...]
Gone are the days of the old dusty, sometimes musty basement wine cellar. Gone is the need to rely solely on the ambient conditions downstairs. Today, wine cabinets have replaced the venerable cellar. Like hi tech wine cellars, wine cabinets feature clean lines, energy efficiency and modern temperature controls. With exterior cabinet designs that range [...]
Think of a traditional European meal and a tall glass of chilled clear wine, set on a table under a blue Mediterranean sky comes easily to the mind. From a humble beverage made by farmers trying to preserve grape juice, wine making has come a long way through the centuries. The world over, no sophisticated [...]
Though “rain in Spain is mostly on the plain”, Spanish summers are delightful. And like Nobel Laureate Earnest Hemingway, if you visit the bullfighting fiesta in Pamplona or pub crawl through Montparnasse, the hills of Spain with a bottle of Tinto de Verano, the summer wine of Spain, you may call yourself extremely lucky! Tinto [...]