Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used to make white wine and Champagne/sparkling wines. Continue reading
Month: January 2009
Wine San Angelo drinks—Franzia
Wine snobs may rhapsodize about pulling cork on a supple Cab-Merlot blend from France or a buttery Chardonnay from the Texas Hill Country, but when San Angeloans drink wine, they are most likely to drink wines that are sweet, cheap, and come in a box.
According to beverage wholesalers and retailers, the top selling wines in San Angelo are the Franzia House Wine Favorites, 5-liter boxes of Chillable Red, Sunset Blush, Crisp White, or Fruity Red Sangria. San Angeloans buy more than 7,000 boxes of those Franzia wines each year—and that does not count some of the boxes purchased by restaurants and bars. Continue reading
Storing wine
Heat, temperature fluctuation, and light are wine’s enemies, and things you need to consider if you don’t consume wine shortly after purchase.
Here are simple tips: Continue reading
Gewurztraminer
It’s hardest-to-pronounce wine grape: Gewurztraminer (guh-vyrts-trah-mee-nuhr). Continue reading