Pairing wines with food correctly, can be quite tricky. It's important to ensure that the wine you choose as an accompaniment to any dish, doesn't overwhelm or mask the flavouring of the latter and vice versa.While there are some thumb rules people follow when pairing...
When you start building a wine collection, and want to savour your wines in the right manner, you begin building your wine glasses collection too. And anyone that has even a remote interest in wines knows there are different types glasses for different wines. Here...
If you're an avid wine collector, you probably have different varietals and vintages in your cellar. Some of them might be fit for immediate consumption while others require a little aging for their flavours to develop fully. It can be a challenge to determine when...
It's pretty common for people to serve most drinks at extremely cool temperatures; when you have a close friend come over for dinner, you may just pull out a fine claret from your wine cellar and put in in the refrigerator to chill it well...
If you are a wine lover and tend to consume and serve a lot of wine, it's likely that you don't need any practice with opening up a wine bottle - but the question here is- are you actually doing it the right way? There...
If you are just starting out on your wine collection, you must be hungry to know more about every aspect of wines; and storage is a very important factor that you would have to keep in view at all times. Regardless of whether you are...
Anyone who savours wines knows that there are different ways in which different wines have to be tasted and enjoyed. If you have just started your romance with wines, you must be eager to know more about everything related to them. Here we discuss the...
It's not uncommon for wine drinkers to sometimes find that they have to just discard an opened bottle of wine, that been stored in the fridge for a few days; air exposure can very quickly turn the best of wines into a disastrous and undrinkable...
There are times when you open up a bottle of wine and notice an off-flavour; there is a distinct possibility that the wine might have been corked. This occurs when either the storage barrels or the cork of the wine might have gotten tainted with...
It's a fact that a number of wines taste better when they are aged. However, once you have opened the bottle, it has a certain shelf life. Opening a bottle of wine kick-starts the oxidation process; and this also means its aromas and flavours will...