Although natural wine has been around for centuries, it has seen a considerable rise in popularity these past few years. While most people believe that natural wine is just another trend, it is, in fact, the conventional winemaking method. In a way, it's a traditional...
Chardonnay is a wine that every wine aficionado has enjoyed at least once in their lives, although they may have had radically different experiences with it. The type has been dubbed "the most plastic grape" globally because of its versatility and adaptability. However, it is...
There are many different categories of wines when it comes to wine, and every wine lover knows their whites, reds, rose, sparkling, and more. However, when you check wine labels, you may find some with "organic labelling" mentioned on them. So what exactly are organic wines? Does organic mean...
There is a variety of chemical compounds found in wine, with wine tannins being the most well-known. Those compounds are in precisely the right proportion when wine production and wine storage are carried out correctly, and its chemical structure can be upset by any one...
Many aspects affect wine flavour. Winemakers do many things that affect the resulting liquid's flavour, apart from natural differences in grapes. While most people know that aging wines in oak barrels affect their flavour, producers use several other techniques to make better wines. Here we...
“Boutique” is an adjective commonly used to describe wineries and wine globally. Yet, most people do not know what a boutique wine is. Within the wine industry, wineries producing fewer than 10,000 cases of wine annually are called boutique wineries. The other terms used to...
Wine is a beverage that has been around since the Neolithic era and grape vine cultivation has been taking place in various regions throughout the world since that time. Today, the world has more than 10,000 different wine grape varieties. Of these, only some are...
Today, Napa Valley has become one of the most well-known wine regions on the planet. However, when it was no more than a budding wine region, Americans were quite obsessed with Bordeaux wines. Since winemakers in Napa Valley couldn’t just produce wine that carried the...
Sparkling wines are the ones with bubbles and is the reason why they sparkle. This incredibly unique wine has high levels of carbon dioxide, which makes it fizzy. It is arguably one of the most technical wines, as it doesn’t undergo only one fermentation, but...
Wines come in a wide range of varieties, flavours, strengths, colours, and types. The taste and liking for a particular wine differ from person to person, which is why it’s hard for everyone to agree which wines are the best. Amateur wine drinkers have to...