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Learning About How To Make Your Own Wine Pairings

Posted in Wine on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There are all sorts of experts in the world who can show you tricks and tips and wonderful lessons on how to create your own masterful pairings of food and wine.  I am absolutely certain that I am not one of them. I am, however, someone with a killer memory who obsesses on how to [...]

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How to Taste Wine – Decanting, Breathing and Aeration

Posted in Wine on September 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Oxygen changes things. Sometimes that`s a good thing, sometimes it`s a bad thing. When we preserve food we are attempting to eliminate it – when we consume wine we often want to add it.   Adding oxygen to wine will change it`s flavour.  I have yet to find a single expert who advocates that all [...]

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Coolest Wine Commercials

Posted in Wine on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

We`re staying on the wine kick for another 2 or 3 days and will move back to regular programming.  Not a lot to say today – thought we`d share some of the neates commercials we`ve found that celebrate wine. The first video is less than a minute – it`s a commercial for Beringer Vineyard and [...]

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How to Taste Wine – Common Descriptions

Posted in Wine on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Earlier in this series we mentioned that it`s not necessary to describe wine by comparing it to all sorts of other things (afterall, a cheeseburger tastes like a cheeseburger and not hints of summer rain) but many do and it can be fun. There are thousands of different terms people use to describe wine (the [...]

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How to Taste Wine – the Taste

Posted in Wine on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Before discussing how to taste wine, let`s take a small step back and examine how we taste anything.   Our tongue has many taste buds and different part of our tongue specialize in perceiving different tastes.  It is believed we can only taste 4 separate things (a fifth is being proposed) and they are: Sweet [...]

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How to Taste Wine – the Smell

Posted in Wine on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

There was a delightful urban legend that the Inuit people of the Northern Hemisphere had hundreds or thousands of words to describe snow.  While the truth is that there are many flaws in this claim (including that there are several Inuit languages so the statement itself has a flawed assumption and that it`s recognized that [...]

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How to Taste Wine – the Look

Posted in Wine on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Murphy’s Law.  Heading out the door on my way to Boston and back for a 36 hour road trip and a half-hour post just got eaten by the Internet.  It really was a stunner. It’s almost a shame to begin to talk about the basics of tasting wine with the look.  It’s not that it’s [...]

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How to Taste Wine – an Introduction

Posted in Wine on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I am not a sommelier (heck I had to Google the spelling of it) nor am I any sort of wine expert.  I have taken a few courses here and there and consumed a number of bottles but my overall experience is fairly pedestrian. It’s often that I hear (and I remember saying), “I don’t [...]

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Boxhead Shiraz – Some Things are just so Pretty you have to Share

Posted in Wine on August 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The competition amongst wine companies for a beautiful label continues to be fun to watch and I just had to share our latest find: I adore it and knew I found a hit when I saw Dana`s face when I pulled it out at home.  She laughed a bit at me when I naively claimed [...]

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