Wine Myths…Busted: You Need a Different Wine Glass for Each Type of Wine!
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Thinking about Buying a Wine Fridge? Read This First!
Over the last couple of months I’ve received a few emails/Facebook comments/carrier pigeons with notes attached to them, from people looking for advice on purchasing a wine fridge. I’m therefore going to defer to the superior knowledge of my good friend Curtis Dahl, co-owner of Joseph & Curtis. His company builds some of the best wine cellars known-to-mankind, and they also stock an impressive selection of wine coolers (as in refrigerators, not the drink…that would…
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Clarksburg: The “Top Secret” AVA – Infographic
How to Disarm a Wine Snob in 5 Easy Steps.
Let’s face it, we all know someone we would deem to be a “wine snob.” In fact, I’m sure a lot of people call me a snob. The truth-of-the-matter is that some people have earned the right to varying degrees of superiority on a topic when that’s what they do for a living. To illustrate, let me tell you about my dad. He’s a joiner (carpenter) back in England. Needless-to-say, whenever he comes to…
Read MoreWine Myths…Busted: Wines Pair with Cheese.
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Read MoreWine Myths…Busted: Always Serve Red Wine at Room Temperature.
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30 Ways to Repurpose a Wine Barrel – Part 1
Who knew there were so many ways to repurpose a wine barrel!?!? Wine barrel outdoor chair. Wine barrel candle holder. A wine barrel wine bottle holder…..because everything comes full circle! A simple repurpose: Cut a hole in one end of a barrel and you have an instant dog house!
Read MoreWine Myths…Busted: Never Put Ice-Cubes in Your Wine.
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Read MoreWine Myths…Busted: Do Aromas/Flavors of “Barnyard” and “Dirt” Indicate a Wine to be Bad?
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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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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