Kris Chislett

Facts May 31, 2012

Wine Myths…Busted: Never Choose Wine Based on the Label.

This “wine myth” comes up every now and then, and is generally written in lifestyle magazines by writers who have absolutely no clue about the topic they are covering, instead relying on regurgitating the rhetoric they’ve no-doubt read in some other lifestyle magazine. Of course, the beautiful packaging and design of a wine label doesn’t really tell you anything about the juice in the bottle….or does it? People are becoming increasingly visual in their habits,…

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Facts May 31, 2012

What are Green Wines? – Infographic

I love a good wine infographic, so much so that I recently started creating my own, and I can’t even begin to tell you have much time and research they take! Wine.com always do the best job in putting together wine infographics and this one for Green Wines is no exception.

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Uncategorized May 30, 2012

Peter Lehman “Layers” White Wine Blend, Adelaide, South Australia.

Grapes 36% Semillon, 20% Muscat, 20% Gewürztraminer, 20% Pinot Gris and 4% Chardonnay.   Facts I’ve been a big fan of the Peter Lehmann brand for a few years now. Their “Art Series” represents some of most value-driven, well-distributed and thoroughly “glug-worthy” wines coming out of Oz…. The same kind of “kitchen-sinky” blend as Conundrum, and I’m taking a wild-stab-in-the-dark guess that “Layers” refers to the layers of flavor achieved through the blending of these…

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News May 29, 2012

What’s Happening in my World…

  Kris Chislett.com I know, I must be out of my tiny-little-English-mind to start an additional website! My rationale is that I’m not particularly fond of posting social media content right here on this website (since it’s a little off-topic from what most people are expecting); however, as my involvement in social media increases and I’m working with a lot more wineries, I needed somewhere to house this type of content. I also wanted to…

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News May 28, 2012

Changing the Perception that all Rieslings are Sweet.

One group of Riesling enthusiasts has set out to change the perception that all Riesling wines are sweet.In 2007, Dan Berger, Coke Roth and Jim Trezise assembled at a wine event and began to talk about the problem with Riesling. “Consumers walk into a store,” said Berger, a wine writer in Santa Rosa, Calif. “They liked the last Riesling they had, so they pick up a bottle, wondering if it’s dry or sweet. They can’t…

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News May 25, 2012

5 Million Bottles of English Bubbly to be Sold by 2015.

According to reports, sales of English sparkling wine are set to hit 5 million bottles by 2015.There are almost 400 vineyards in the UK now, almost twice that of 10 years ago. “We have a unique terroir that makes English sparkling wine special. It’s more expensive to produce than Champagne, the cost of land is higher and yields are lower.” said Ridgeview winemaker Charlie Holland. “It’s a fallacy to say you can’t ripen grapes in…

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Pairings May 24, 2012

Fish Tacos with Jalapeno-Lime Guacamole and Cabbage Slaw Paired with Vidonya Vinho Verde.

Ahhhhhh fish tacos! I can definitely put fish tacos in my top 5 favorite foods of all time. Simple, affordable, healthy and usually inexpensive. I’ve always said that if I was going to open my own restaurant, the simplest and guaranteed-not-to-fail concept I can think of is a taco restaurant. You don’t have to have the best ingredients in order to make a phenomenal dish (therefore your overhead is low), the ticket times on food…

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News May 22, 2012

The Wine Industry: It’s Alright, Because it’s All White!

The inimitable Steve Heimoff certainly has a way with words. He recently wrote: Yesterday’s stunning news that more minority babies are being born in the U.S. than white babies, for the first time ever, has tremendous implications for the domestic wine industry. The problem, which in my opinion the wine industry has never wanted to admit much less deal with, is that wine is pretty much an upscale beverage for white people of European heritage….

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