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Besides the pleasure that it can produce, wine is a complex product, and judging its quality is not easy, even for those working in the wine business. Many industry experts express their judgment in numerical rating systems, and even if this may sound harsh or unromantic and somehow ...
Labels are a powerful tool and can give us key elements to understand wines even before opening the bottle. This is why I firmly believe that anyone approaching this world should have at least some basic knowledge on how to read a label. So, after talking about Spanish ...
Even with some basic knowledge of Spanish, to me, one of the most difficult thing, when choosing a Spanish wine, is to extricate among their labels and Spanish wine classification system. Vino de Mesa, Denominación de Origen, Joven, Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva are difficult words to memorize and ...
I am pretty sure that most of you, at least once in your life, will have thought to buy a wine to keep in the cellar for a few years and then open to celebrate a special event; a bottle from the year when your son/daughter was born ...
On our last post, we wrote about wine blends and we quickly described some popular ones, leaving you with the unfinished subject of the most famous of all, the red Bordeaux one. WHAT IS THE BORDEAUX BLEND? This blend was created centuries ago in the ...
As a wine lover, you may have often heard of “wine blends”, but how much do you exactly know about them? Are you aware, for example, that we commonly drink wines that are the result of blends, even if this is not necessarily specified on the label? This ...
Following our last post about red grape varieties and how knowing them can help us in choosing the right bottle, we thought it would have been fair to have a look at white grapes as well. Indeed, white wines can offer an equal extensive array of textures and ...
Are you a shy and insecure red wine drinker? Would you like to understand a bit more about the ampelographic complexity of red wines in order to better choose your next bottle? You are in the right place. Today’s post will give you some introductory hints on some of ...