Order a White, it’s probably Chardonnay. One of the world’s most popular wines, Chardonnay accounts for about one bottle of every five sold in the United States.-Read more
Sauvignon Blanc
An amazingly versatile white wine, Sauvignon Blanc is now very popular. Some versions, a bit on the distinctly grassy style, appeal to wine lovers, notably those Sauvignon Blancs from New Zealand with their assertive aroma characteristics.
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Wine Decanter
Decanting Most Red Wines is a Good Idea.
For one thing, younger red wines need time to recover from fermentation; and a lot of young reds have had no time for the flavors to knit. Air helps that process in young wines. Even inexpensive wines can benefit and “come together” with aeration.
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Wine Resources
As the oldest industry in the human experience, sans one, wine has a plethora of gear, information, and services that have developed over the millennia to support it.
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What a Wine List Reveals
A Wine list is strategic to any restaurant that sells wine. Creating an effective wine list is not for the feint of heart, inexperienced, or narrow-minded. And you can spot any of these characteristics from a quick scan.
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Other Grapes
There are other grapes that make delicious wines worth exploring. We all have a habit of sticking with what we like, but it limits us from actually knowing what we like. The wines below are all delicious and worth a try.
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Riesling
Perhaps the world’s greatest wine variety of them all is Riesling. Red wine lovers will argue this point, but no other grape has the ability to make as wide a variety of styles of wine as does Riesling, and all are considered superb.
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What Wine Goes WIth What
Back in the mid 1980s, I had the privilege to work with the Wine Institute. Our challenge was the ambitious goal of converting the United States into a wine drinking culture.
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Merlot
An attractive red wine grape, Merlot is planted in many parts of the world, and emanates from Bordeaux where it is one of the most vital parts of wines from the St.-Emilion and Pomerol districts. As such it is the heart of Chateau Petrus, one of the world’s most famous wines. And it makes a slightly lower-tannin red wines.
Cabernet Sauvignon
Without doubt, Cabernet Sauvignon is the world’s most prolific red wine grape since it grows well in many regions, and produces a wine with some distinctive characteristics, not least of which is the tannin structure that leaves the taster’s mouth feeling like it was just subjected to sandpaper.
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