Category: Facts About Wine

Wine has five components that determine taste and quality: alcohol, acid, tannin, sweetness/dryness, fruitiness. Know these and you can hang with wine snobs (if that’s your thing). More important, you can enhance your enjoyment of wine. Continue reading →

Buying wine: intimidating. So many choices and prices. We hunker in our wine foxhole, timidly buy familiar bottles. Continue reading →

Fred Franzia drives fellow winemakers crazy mad. At the same time, he makes wine drinkers who value value wines crazy happy. Continue reading →

Which countries plant most acres of grapevines, produce the most wine, and harvest the most grapes? Prepare for surprises. Continue reading →

Old wine seller maxim: “Best vintage is the one you have to sell.” Continue reading →

Grapes are an agricultural product—world’s most planted fruit crop. As every farmer and backyard gardener knows, weather affects quality. Continue reading →

Wedding season—Champagne 101 time. Continue reading →

Wine experts say Americans serve white wines too cold and red wines too hot. Continue reading →

San Angeloans buy more Franzia House Favorites boxed wines than any other wine. Carlo Rossi jug wines are another top seller.
A brand of the E.&J. Gallo Winery, Carlo Rossi fits into the niche of a dependable, affordable table wine. It is named after Charles Rossi, a salesman for Gallo who married into the Gallo family. Charlie Rossi appeared in television ads for the brand in the 1970s. Continue reading →

Historically, “pulling cork” is iconic to the wine experience. “Pulling plastic” and “twisting screw cap”, not so much. Closure opens up a wine world quandary. Continue reading →