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Tips On Choosing Your Next Bottle Of Wine

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Tonight’s the night. You’ve got that special dinner party with friends and you want it to be perfect. You’ve got the menu completed but the question is which wine will compliment the meal best? Here are some tips for choosing fine wine. Lighter foods need lighter wines while heartier foods need full bodied wines. For example, fish is light and thus a wine like Pinot Noir goes very nicely because it is also light. The way the food is prepared will also influence the type of wine you choose. Whether your meal is grilled or roasted as well as the … Continue reading

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The Beauty Of Red Wine: A Beginner’s Guide

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The hit comedy film Sideways is about a road trip in the wine country of sunny California where the two main characters, Miles and Jack, taste copious amounts of red wine while dealing with major life dramas. It’s a hilarious film that touched so many people with its dark comedy and truly moving portraits of people dealing with love, pain, and wine tasting. But perhaps the greatest thing about Sideways was how it inspired so many people to go out and become connoisseurs of fine wine! According the Internet Movie Database, the movie made so many of its fans want … Continue reading

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Wine Labels Explained

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Wine Labels Explained You may remember the old adage ‘you can’t judge a book by its cover’, but is the same true about a bottle of wine?  Can you judge wine by its label? What Do The Labels Mean? There is a lot of information in the label of a bottle of wine, and if you aren’t a connoisseur of wine it can be a little overwhelming at first glance.  The majority of wine labels are quite similar though, containing information on the winery where the wine was made, the ‘appellation’ (the country or region where the grapes that went … Continue reading

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What Wine Goes With My Chicken Salad Sandwich?

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What Wine Goes With My Chicken Salad Sandwich? (I like this article.  I didn’t write it and I can’t find out who the author is, but she does bring a lot of common sense to the whole issue of food and wine). We’ve all heard that there are rules to selecting the right wine.  Those rules are based on the type of meat or fish main course, cost, the snootiness factor and other less savoury snobbery.  Heck, I’m no snob when selecting just that right wine to go with my meal.  I have 1 rule that fits no matter what’s … Continue reading

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Wine Tasting for the Average Man

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Going to a wine tasting can be a very fun and enjoyable experience. However, many people do not attend for fear of not knowing exactly how to act or what to do. There’s no great mystery to wine tastings, just a few things you should remember. As far as etiquette, usually the ladies are served before the gentlemen. Some wine tastings offer you bottled water. Use this to rinse out your mouth between tastings so your palate is clean for the next wine. There is often unsalted and unflavored crackers and bread to help palate cleansing as well. You should … Continue reading

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The Chianti Wine Regions

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The region of Chianti is a tiny area in the heart of Tuscany between Siena and Florence and overlooks the Elsa Valley. The land is fertile with olive groves, green forests, and those delicious grapes just waiting to be picked off the vine and smashed into the most heavenly of drinks-Chianti wine. For many years, Italians have enjoyed the prestige of being recognized for having the largest harvest of grapes and the finest vintages of wine in the Mediterranean. The present day farmers can thank the Phoenicians for bringing vines to this area. They named the area, ‘Oenotria’, the ‘land … Continue reading

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How To Make Sangria

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How Sangria Originated If you are visiting Spain, be sure to try the sangria recipe at your favourite restaurant or bar. This is a traditional Spanish drink and you will find it served in most bars and restaurants. Recipes vary from place to place, so be sure to try it with a few meals in different locations. The ingredients used in the recipe can also vary according to the food that is being served. Sangria is served throughout the country in the summer. In the northern areas, it is considered a summer drink. In the eastern and southern areas of … Continue reading

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A Beginners’ Guide To Enjoying Red Wine

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The world of red wines is a heady, rich and wonderful world filled with everything from the nuanced subtlety of a gentle South African Merlot to the peppery richness of Sangre de Toro, “Blood of the Bull” from Spain. In general, many of the “rules” of wine drinking have been cast aside in today’s world, making it more accessible to every person, and with the increased demand supply has soared, allowing for inexpensive and very delicious wine available to all. Still, there are many who feel that the world of wine loving is not as yet open to them. With … Continue reading

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How to Cure A Wine Hangover

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How about teaming up your favourite meal with the best of wine this weekend? It sounds a great idea but don’t you think you may overindulge? Well, you may not mind this but what about the hangover you have to face, the other morning. How about spending your entire Sunday afternoon sitting inside the bathroom, with one hand on your forehead and the other on your stomach? Scary isn’t it? This sounds really bad but don’t worry, there are many tips you can follow in order to get rid of a wine hangover. All you need to do is to … Continue reading

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The Art Of Wine Tasting

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The production of wine in France is tightly controlled by two organisations. The Instituit National des Appellations d’Origine (INAO). This body succeeded the Comite’ National des Appellations d’Origine after World War II and controls the hierachy of French quality wines. The other is the Service de Repression des Fraudes, which is responsible for seeing that the very complicated laws on wine production are carried out. On the French domestic market, every bottle carries a capsule conge’, or capsule with the government seal on it showing that the relevant tax has been paid. It also shows the wine’s quality status. You … Continue reading

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