Category: Facts About Wine

Answers to common wine questions: Continue reading →

Some answers to common questions: Continue reading →

Pale straw color; lemon-lime, peach, grapefruit, pineapple, passion fruit, pear, crushed sea shells, minerality, saline on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Wine has an image problem that is both its biggest asset and its Achilles heal. Wine is the most complex alcohol drink. Continue reading →

Golden amber color; dried apricot, orange marmalade, raisin, grapefruit, lemon-lime, honey, fig, walnut, toasted almond, caramel, butterscotch, marzipan on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

Sixty years ago, Texas wine was a curious microdot in the wine world. Two Texas Tech professors piddled around with a few grapevines, originally intending to make grape jelly to supplement their income. Continue reading →

It used to be simple. Good wine had a natural cork. Cheap wine had a screw top. Not any more. Continue reading →

Deep ruby, black color; dark plum, dark cherry, strawberry, licorice, pepper on the nose and palate. Continue reading →

By best estimate, there are some 10,000 different grape varieties in the world. If you tasted a different one every day, it would take you more than 27 years to complete the task. Thankfully, the world of wine is confined to a smaller number. Continue reading →

It is a new year and there are sweeping changes in wine bottle sizes in America. Yep, wine makers and glass blowers have a whole new tool kit to entice you into experiencing whatever elixir they have conjured from grape juice and yeast and wood and whatever else the white-coated wine wizards have procured. Continue reading →