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Happy New Year!
Wishing you a very happy and prosperous 2017! Cheers! ...
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Behind the Cork™ Wine of the Week
I constantly get asked “What’s a good bottle of wine to buy?” And my response is always the same “What kind of wine do you like?” because the wines that I like may not be the ones that you would like. So I’ve struggled with the question and how to...
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What is Ice Wine?
Ice wine (eiswein in Austria and Germany, or the single-word icewine in Canada) is produced from the pressings of frozen grapes. Germany and Canada are the leading producers of traditional ice wines, but Austria, Switzerland and the United States a...
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Behind the Cork™ - 2013 Fife Creek Vineyards Russian River Valley Zinfandel
2013 Fife Creek Vineyards Russian River Valley Zinfandel ($10) This was a recent find of a Russian River Valley Zin that doesn’t break the bank. This Zin tends toward being light for a Zinfandel. It’s almost leaning toward a light-bodied wine, almos...
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What is Residual Sugar in Wine?
One of the terms that gets thrown around in the wine world is ‘Residual Sugar.’ But it’s not something you are going to read about on a wine’s label. So, what is it and why should you care? Let’s take a quick step back and review the basics of the w...
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Behind the Cork™ - 2014 Pasqua Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore
2014 Pasqua Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore ($9) Valpolicella is an Italian wine generally produced primarily with the Corvina grape and blended with Rondinella, Molinara and sometimes Negrara grapes. Ripasso, or “repassed,” refers to the method of ...
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Factors that Affect How Sweet a Wine Tastes
Last time, the topic of residual sugar was discussed. Simply put, residual sugar (RS) is a measure of the sugar (typically in grams per liter) that remains in wine after fermentation. During an uninterrupted fermentation, the yeast will continue to...
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Behind the Cork™ - 2014 Chateau Ste. Michelle Indian Wells Chardonnay
2014 Chateau Ste. Michelle Indian Wells Chardonnay ($11) This Chardonnay, from Washington’s Columbia Valley, not only has great flavors of pineapple and mango, but add rich flavors of butterscotch and caramel from its fermentation and oak aging. Bob...
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Is There a Relationship Between a Wine’s Sweetness and Its Alcohol Level?
When choosing a wine, one of the characteristics of interest to you might be its sweetness. But how can you really tell if a wine has sweet tendencies? The label may have some sentences on the back label to tell you just a little bit about the wine...
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