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A Comprehensive Guide to Wine Tasting
You do not have to be a sophisticated regular on the party circuit or a connoisseur of wine fine to be able to taste wine and inform the manufacturers about minute details about its smell and taste. You just have to get your hands on some wine glasses and wine bottles of different kinds and makes and with a little bit of experience you can become an expert wine taster. All the supplies you will need are the glasses and the bottles.
If you are going to be tasting the wines for a winery then obviously you do not have to carry your own glasses. They winery will have different types of glasses and you can use them to pour and wine and taste it as well. Some people believe that wine tastes best in the particular type of glass meant for it. No again some experts are of the view that it tastes good in a glass which is not meant for it. A good hand blown crystal glass will do just fine for tasting most types of wines.
There are so many types and different kinds of wine that not enough can be ever said or written about them. Let us first get to the basic kinds. The two basic types are red wine and white wine. Red wine is made from red grapes which are fermented with the skin and the pips. Reds can be sweet or dry and there are nearly 40 varieties of red grapes which are used in the manufacture of red wines. Some of the popular red wines are Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, and Sangiovese. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Beauty of Red Wine – A Beginner’s Guide
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 to the Internet Movie Database, the movie made so many of its fans want to buy Pinot Noir (a dry red wine) that sales significantly increased in the US and UK during and after its release. Talk about the effect of movies on people!
If you want to learn a bit more about red wine, dry red wine, and its other variants but feel clueless as to the whole thing, here’s a quick wine guide; a red-wine-for-dummy guide if you like!
Why is Red Wine… Er… Red?
Red wine is so colored because of the grape skins involved. There are a multitude of grape types, each as diverse and colorful as the next. You have purple, maroon, deep red, light red–the list goes on. Each variety brings a unique shade of red to red wine and the various colors you can see in wine stores are a direct result of the many grapes used in worldwide wine-making processes. An individual wine’s color depends largely on what type of grape was used to make it and how long the skin was left in with the juice before being extracted.
What Are The Different Types of Red Wine?
There are many different types of red wine but they are usually judged by their “body.” For example, a light-bodied wine is not too demanding on the mouth and taste buds. It goes well with food that is flavor intensive. A good example of this kind of wine is the French red wine Beaujolais Nouveau. Read the rest of this entry »
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A Beginner's Wine Guide: What is best for Your Romantic Dinner
It does not matter whether you are having a dinner at a restaurant with a special friend or with your family. A wine can turn even the simplest occasion into a very special wine. However, if you do not make the right choice, that sumptuous meal can turn your palate into a disaster. So here is a wine guide to help you decide the right drink that would compliment your meal.
You always hear people ordering Chardonnay when yo Read the rest of this entry »
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