All About Wines

Reason for Inexpensive Wine Glasses

September 26, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

You have a friend who is clumsy enough to break wine glasses so you always want to keep a set of inexpensive wine glass in your wine bar so that you don’t lose the expensive ones. Also all wine lovers cannot afford very high priced glasses. But they intend to drink and serve wine in [...]

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Truth About Screw Top Wine

September 23, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

From the very start corks have been used to close wine bottles. But now a new trend has started – that of using screw top wine. These days some prefer to use screw top wine as it is more comfortable and useful. Cork can break, leak, crumble that will destroy the taste of wine. How [...]

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Best Tuscan Reds 2006 Releases

September 19, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Tuscan reds are a vast variety of wine. They are mainly made of Sangiovese grapes found in Tuscany region. It has a variety of clones almost 14 of them. For example, Brunello and Prugnello Chianti is another best known Tuscan wine producing area. There are many other Tuscany wines like Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile di [...]

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Understanding Rose Wine

September 17, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

One should know that Rose wine is not a blend of red and white wine. They are made from red grape-varieties. Rose wines also known as Blush wines are wines having a reddish tinge which makes it more of red wine, and less of white wine. Its actual color varies depending on the grapes used. [...]

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Save Money By Making Wine at Home

September 15, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Home made wine – do people really make wine at home. Is it legal? How do you do it? Why do people make wine at home? Home-made wine is an old age tradition in England for showing hospitality and warmth to the guests and visitors. But usually home made wine have a very high content [...]

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Remedies to Clean Red Wine Stains

September 10, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Holiday time is near and you must be planning to throw party for your family and friends, but are afraid of having your new carpet, curtains or clothes spoiled as you had in last holidays. Host cannot show displeasure in front of the guest when he/she spills a wine glass on the new carpet or [...]

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5 Ways to Preserve Open Wine

September 8, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

For every wine drinker, it is a must to know how long an opened wine stays good, as well as to know how to keep them properly. In next few lines we are going to explain both. How long does a wine stay good after opening? It mainly depends on type of wine, way it [...]

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Order Wine and Impress Your Dinner Guest

September 2, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Dinner without a wine will always make you feel that you are missing something. So it’s always good to choose a wine bottle at dinner that will go along with the food that you have ordered. Mainly what we know is that strong and bold wines go well with strongly flavored foods and milder wines [...]

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Get the Party Going With a Home Wine Bar

September 1, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Place where all the variety of wines are available is called a wine bar. When we say wine bar, we can mean both home wine bar as well as wine bars for public. Wine bars for public has different aspect as it caters the need of all. Public wine bars are very popular and new [...]

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Signs of a Good French Red Wine

August 27, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

France is the habitat of much great wine. It has red wines that are some of the most tremendous and expensive in the world, along with varieties that are affordable, good wines. France has around 2 million acres of vineyards and it produces 7-8 billion bottles of wine every year. Here are few of them: [...]

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Different Types of Italian Wines

August 25, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

The world is full of various types of wines whose names, tastes, and styles differ greatly. We all know that wine is majorly distinguished according to regions. Major wine producing areas are Australia, California, Italy, etc. Here we discuss one of the most important wines, i.e. Italian wine. There are mainly two types of wine [...]

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Options to Buy Wine Online

August 25, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Wines can be purchased from many sources, specified wine stores, supermarket, small wine shops, clubs, and also online. There are many websites dedicated to buy wine online. They are doing commercially very good, but there are still many people who think they should not buy wine online. There are advantages to buying wine online • [...]

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How to Spot a Bad Wine

August 21, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Identifying a bad wine is important though not an easy task by just seeing the bottle on the shelf, but a lot easier to spot while having a sip. Even today where we have modern equipment to make and store the wine, still a small percentage of wine reaches the stores bad after shipping. Here [...]

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How to Read a Wine Label

August 20, 2009 by Patricia Fioriello

Suppose you are standing in a wine store and you wish to buy something different. You do not know anything outside of the label. What does the label have to do with the wine? Recently I was asked this question by Karen Cole on NPR’s and then I realized that I had never come across [...]

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