Today we went off to the Boston Wine Expo, had a hugely great time. The wife and I bought the mother-in-law and got her to explore a lot of new grape varietals from regions all over the world. We started the event with a great keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk at WineLibrary.com. This was a double-blind tasting with eight wines from regions around the world, we each had eight glasses in front of us to taste with Gary, pick out flavors [...]
Many wine lovers search for days, weeks or even months trying to find a place to buy good wines at lower prices. Some companies auction off wines that are aging and not moving off shelves for a good price because…well… it’s not moving. Like many products, nothing dulls a sale like one that doesn’t actually sell. Inventory space isn’t limitless and companies have to remove old stock for new to freshing their outlook or because wine is getting older and [...]
Chardonnay, like other wines, is a type of wine which takes the name of a grape. The Chardonnay grape is a green grape, unlike Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir grapes which are purplish blue grapes. The Chardonnay grape is used to make Chardonnay wines, of course, but it’s also used to create sparkling wines and Champagne. “Chardonnay is a versatile grape. In cold regions such as Chablis, it shows crisp acidity and flavours of green hay with the flinty [...]
Champagne is a fancy name for Sparkling Wine. A wine with bubbles, carbonated for your pleasure, produced exclusively in the Champagne regions of France. Believe it or not, many governments restrict the user of Champagne to sparkling wines made in the Champagne region of France which is interesting, where else does that type of odd rule exist? In the United States we have a similar rule to Europe, which enforces “Champagne” to be from France but we grandfather in older [...]
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