If you’re the one who’s hosting the wine tasting here are a few etiquette rules that you should perhaps keep in mind. It’s best if you can keep the number of guests down to a group that will comfortably fit in your room without being overcrowded. This avoids the normal scramble for seating space, besides [...]

An ALIE Project fron Hungary in Authentic Learning: MAKING WINE This project has been carried out by students of Sandor Petofi Horticultural Secondary Technical School. The aime was to activate our students to try to accept the new way of learning offered by the Alie project. After they were informed about the new methods and [...]

This article reviews an inexpensive California wine from the recently deceased wine giant Robert Mondavi who to a large extent put California on the international wine map. If you intend to become a wine professional you should consider the Robert Mondavi Institute (RMI) for Wine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis. We [...]

Bordeaux wines from Thirties, Forties & Fifties + NZ Cabernets from Sixties, Seventies & Eighties. Attended by wine makers and wine lovers from NZ, UK, South Africa, USA, Switzerland & Portugal, some of whom volunteered to open the bottles. The wine was decanted before serving.

Wine making Kits:Wine, along with beer, is a drink that has enduring with man as farther back as chronicle goes and extended on from generation to generation in the same way that the stories and legends of the medieval. Wine is the drink that toasts to purposeful issues in life history and that it is [...]

I don’t think I have to tell you about the beauty of the French Mediterranean, an area known affectionately as the “Midi”. Unlike Tuscany, this fantastic region is not particularly well known for fine wines. Many of its wines are roses, best consumed on a terrace overlooking the sea. The grape Picpoul de Pinet is [...]

There are many things involved in the art of wine tasting, but you probably didn’t know that there are also a few things that you should be aware of on the etiquette of wine tasting. These aren’t hard and fast rules that someone has set down somewhere when they had nothing better to do on [...]

Home winemakers are shown crushing 1000 lbs of 2008 Cabernet/Petit Verdot/Cab Franc at Mann Vinyards in Gilroy, CA.

Rioja is arguably Spain’s greatest wine region. To be more precise: Rioja is arguably Spain’s greatest red wine region. This region in northern Spain produces relatively little white wine and unlike the reds, Rioja whites rarely go for big bucks. Traditionally, Rioja whites were aged from 2-5 years in oak and were slightly oxidized. But [...]

A short video by wine expert Jamie Goode on the basics of wine tasting.