Is Wine Healthy?. Depends How You Drink It.
Studying alcohol’s effects on human health is tricky business. We know that heavy binge drinking causes serious health issues. But even moderate drinking can be difficult to study in a clinical setting or self-reported study. There are myriad confounding factors, such...
Five Creative Ways to Open Wine Without a Corkscrew
Who needs a corkscrew? These resourceful folks give new meaning to “I need a glass of wine now.” You wouldn’t let a little thing like not having a corkscrew stop you from enjoying that bottle of wine you just bought, right? Seriously, if MacGyver can...
Wine Words to Describe The Indescribable
Here are some wine words that help describe those indescribable flavors in wine. Petrichor A term coined by Australian researchers in 1964 to describe the invigorating smell of summer rain. The smell is caused by the volatilizing of oils and microbes that are released...
Sparkling water, acidity, wine and teeth
There was a scary story circulating the internets recently: Sparkling water is not good for your teeth! Some variants of the story even compared it to soda! Eeegad–just when you thought you were doing the right thing by completely depriving yourself of any flavor…...
“Vinalies Internationales” competition.
In March 2016, our wine Maceración Carbónica 2015 Selección Especial, won Vinalies d’Argent medal of “Vinalies Internationales” competition, one of the major events I the world of wines. What is “Vinalies Internationales” competition? This competition was...
Learn to enjoy good wine (Part 3): strive to the ideal temperature
We continue with this series of posts we have entitled “Learn to enjoy good wine” and this time, in this third mini-lesson, we will talk about the ideal temp…
Learn to enjoy good wine (Part 2): the importance of correct vocabulary
The use of the correct terminology to refer to wine is paramount if we begin to move or we plan to move in the same circles related. In a previous post where…
