Wine tasting is a wonderful hobby! Fun flavors, of course, and amazing wineries and tasting rooms. There’s only one problem that we’ve found: bottles of wine come home with us much faster than we can drink them. That means that storing all of these lovely bottles is an ever-growing challenge. Here are some things that […]
Let’s be real: the best part of any weekend adventure is figuring out your outfit. Wine tasting is both exciting and confusing, fashion-wise, because anything goes. I like dressing up a bit because a) photo ops abound, b) it’s fun and gets me in that festive wine-guzzling mood, and c) don’t we all like feeling […]
It’s harvest time again! That wonderful time of year when wine drinkers rejoice and vineyard owners don’t sleep. Some steps in the wine making process are obvious: growing grapes, fermenting juice, filling bottles, and such. Other steps are more obscure, such as “where to the stems go?” So I’ve enjoyed several parts of the grape […]
The wine tasting room can be a confusing place. There are a lot of technical terms that get thrown around and it is easy to get lost in all the jargon. Last time, we covered malolactic fermentation, a personal favorite. Now we take on another term that tends to confuse: brix, or degrees of brix. […]
We occasionally veer away from chronicling our winery visits to discuss some of the more interesting (confusing, odd?) aspects of wine and wine tasting. We’ve covered wine aromas, fun wine tasting stereotypes, barrel tasting, tasting room etiquette, bottle-your-own activities, even creative ways to get to wineries. We’ve even dipped our literary toe into confusing grape […]
It is easy to be confused by all the grape varietal names thrown about in wineries. It probably isn’t a conspiracy, but why are the same grapes called different names and different grapes called nearly the same thing? Case in point: the big Syrah vs. Shiraz vs. Petite Sirah confusion. Jerry Seinfeld would ask, “What’s […]
Wine tasting has its fair share of ceremonies. The most obvious is the Pulling of the Cork. Corkscrews range from $1 give-aways to Rube Goldberg devices costing many hundreds of dollars. All because the act of uncorking a bottle of wine is so embedded in the pageantry of wine. But recently there is a threat […]
I love drinking wine! The beautiful colors, the complex layers of flavor, the aromas… oh, the aromas. To my surprise, the amazing wine aromas have never been captured in a perfume. That’s probably a good thing, otherwise I might never leave home. So what is it about the “nose” of wine that makes it such […]
Wine tasters come in all shapes, sizes and especially outlooks. We spend our fair share of time in wineries and tasting rooms and have found that many of our fellow wine tasters fall into a few distinct categories. We aren’t quite sure which category best describes us. Which kind of taster are you? Just here […]
Obviously, we like to taste wine and visit wineries. It’s a great hobby! We meet a lot of nice people and visit some picturesque wineries. It does, however, have one small problem: it is easy to buy a lot of wine. For us, at least, this small problem had become a large one. We had […]
Like most things in life, there is a right way and a wrong way to visit a winery’s tasting room. OK, there isn’t JUST ONE right way, and we’ve all seen a wide range of wrong ways, too, but the point is that a little thought and empathy for other people can go a long […]