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Have you ever seen those stiff upper-lipped types doing a spot of the old wine tasting malarkey? You know the form – sip, swill, spit. Yuck! Well this information has been written to help you understand the form should you ever find yourself in a situation where you need to know what to do. And don\’t go thinking \”I\’ll never have to do any wine tasting\” because you just don\’t know that for sure and the last thing you want is to be caught unaware. So, on with t

Some years ago in a book by Lee Iacocca, who was President of Ford Motor Co. prior to taking over Chrysler Corp. and leading them out of bankruptcy, I read that Mr. Iacocca’s boss, Henry Ford II, drank two bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild every day. Two bottles per day is an awful lot and wouldn‘t be advisable, but I did like the thought of drinking fine wine every day. Today, depending on the vintage, two bottles of Chateau Lafite can cost upwards of $1,000 or even more. If your name

Many believe that if a wine is made in Israel, it has to be Kosher. Well, that is not always so, and in fact there’s a complete set of rules that make a wine kosher. In this article I will try and answer the question “What is a Kosher wine?”. Generally speaking, a kosher wine is a wine that was produced according to the “halacha” – the rules of the Jewish religion. Those rules apply to every stage of the wine making process, and make sure that all steps have been carefully conduc

Wine storage is key to the success of any collection. If you enjoy collecting find wines then you will want to look into the best of all wine storage options. There are many different ways to store your wine but no matter which wine storage solution you choose you will need to keep the conditions constant. The temperature of any wine storage space needs to be at a constant 50-60 degrees. There should also be plenty of ventilation of the area and this wine storage should be far away from the ma

Shopping for the right crystal barware doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Just follow these simple steps. Before you buy: 1. Select a variety of drinking glasses As a rule I recommend buying enough glasses to match the number of your fine china and flatware settings. However, if you want to save and buy fewer of the items you don’t expect to use as much, or if you think you’ll need more of another item, breaking this rule makes sense. Know a lot of wine drinkers? You may want to concentr

The art of tasting the wine is naturally as old as the art of wine-making itself. Nowadays the activity of wine taster has turned in an appreciated career for some. If the ancient people used to taste wine before they consumed it now we have experts that taste the wine for us and tell us which wine is better than the other. One of the challenges of this “job” is to be able to translate the taste of wine into language. Greeks used different words to describe wine but today with so many more w

There have been many articles written about the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. And there have many debates and researches that referred to this issue. Some experts say moderate drinking during pregnancy is okay, but there are others who believe taking even one drink is like very dangerous for the baby\’s health. The thing that is not debatable is that whatever women eat or drink while pregnant goes directly through your bloodstream into the placenta so literally if a pregnant wom

Chardonnay is a thousand year old small village in Mâconnais in the southern portion of France\’s burgundy region. The famous wine Chardonnay most likely originated here and was then spread throughout France by the monks. The earliest recorded reference to Chardonnay occurs in 1330 when Cistercian monks built stonewalls around their \’Clos de Vougeot\’ vineyard exclusively planted to Chardonnay grapes. There is another hypothesis that points towards Lebanon when it comes to t

I Love Italian Wine and Food – The Calabria Region Calabria is the toe of the Italian boot. It is located in the southwest corner of Italy, with 500 miles of coastline on the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Tyrrhenian Seas. Its total population is about 2 million. The countryside is mountainous, and prone to earthquakes. For centuries peasants worked very hard to eke out a living from its poor soil. During the last century over a million people left Calabria to seek a better life in Northern or Cen

I Love Italian Wine and Food – Launching a Series Let’s start with a few statistics. Italy constantly fights with France for the title of the world’s biggest wine producer. Italy ranks number 3 in per capita wine consumption. As in many other European countries, Italians are drinking less wine, but better wine. Italy exports about 10% of its wine production to the United States. It is home to almost one million registered vineyards, and more than one thousand grape varieties, the majority