214 articles on "wine"

The Wine and Green Mushroom Caper

(a day in the life of a vintner)We were really looking forward to our visit with Andy and Gwen. Old college buddies, while I chose the medical profession, Andy chose sales. After a few years, Andy joined a wine distributor and eventually evolved into...

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A Wine Drenched Tour Along The Red Route of Paarl, South Africa

The wine tradition in Paarl is older than the roots of the aging Oak Trees that line its Cape Dutch streets. The first European settlers arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652, planting the seeds that solidified the Cape's reputation as a wine...

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Special Occasion - Why Not A Gift Basket Of Wines

Wine is very popular over most of the traditional beverages, and it has proven to be a splendid idea to give someone a personalized gift basket of wine. Now, not everyone has taken on board the health benefits that wines offer especially when taken w...

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The Online Wine Merchant and the New Wine Buying Public

The Internet has been useful for a lot of things: most useful of all, probably, in terms of making a wide range of choice and information available to a buying public that wants to find things out about the items it is interested in purchasing. The o...

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Red and White Wines: A Storage Solution

Wines are unique beverages in that their taste can vary dramatically from one vintner to the next and from one type of grape to another. This very fact is what makes wine interesting for us to drink, compare and enjoy. However, these same variations ...

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Valentine's Day - Do I Need Wine?

Valentines Day can be one of the most romantic days of the year, leaving most men asking, its Valentine's Day- do I need wine? Depending on the activities that you plan for your special day, you may or may not need to purchase wine to make the d...

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I Love Italian Travel - Liguria Wine Tours

So you are planning to tour Liguria. You have probably heard about the historic port of Genoa from which Christopher Columbus set out to visit "The New World". You may be familiar with the Italian Riviera, unashamed competitor to its French counterpa...

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How to Order Wine in a Restaurant

Wine Ordering Basics — Just a Sniff, a Sip, and a SwallowPerhaps you’re comfortable ordering your “grande, nonfat, extra hot, wet cappuccino” every morning or having it your way every afternoon with your “hold the onions, hold the bun, pick...

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How Syrah Wines are Made

Wines are probably one of the most popular, if not the popular alcoholic beverage in the world. It is usually made out of fermented grape juice. There are various types of wine because there are also various types of grapes to make wine from. Syrah o...

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The Mystery of Decanting

The Mystery of Decanting by: Daniella Decanting is a strange word to many people. Some do not even know what it means exactly. Taking the sophistication out of it, decanting literally means pouring the wine from the bottle to a special glass con...

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