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Have you ever come across a wine that seemed “edible”? So dense and compact as well as tarty and unripe that would make the mouth dry up? If yes, then you should know that this is due to a special category of chemical compounds, called tannins.Ta..

Stone cellars, or simple house storage spaces can become the shelter in which we can raise our favorite wines. Not all wines age. However, the one's that have been vinified in such way that can be aged, may evolve into real diamonds over time. It..

The rule says that lower temperatures favor the wine's cool and fruity character, and higher temperatures enhance the complex and meaningfull nature of aging wines.So, before you start serving, put a thermometer to the wine and make sure that it's ..

Champagne is a sparkling wine, but not all sparkling wines are champagnes.Some may argue that chic French champagne is the Queen of sparkling wine and are most probably right. It's the french that have produced this wine and is strictly produced ..

Wine creation, is both a living and magical process.Fermentation is a key step, where the yeast converts the grape's sugar into alcohol. This process stops only when the yeast has saturated or when there is no sugar left and if nature is in contr..

- I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others. (Diogenese the Cynic)- Drink wine, not labels. (Dr. Maynard Amerine)- I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food. (W.C. Fields)- A meal without wine is like a day without sun. (An..

1.Start with easy wines. Look at the known and mostly greek varieties. Our opinion is Malagouozia, Moschofilero, Muscat of Alexandria in the whites category, and Agiorgitiko and Merlot in the reds category. Avoid the strange varieties that might be..

Oxygen! Wine' s biggest enemy, when exposed under bad storing circumstances, but also its biggest ally when the serving time comes. So the oxygen destroys the wine, when it manages to come in contact with it. Being stored under conditions of high t..

 From a humble peoples' sweet wine, tha achaian variety is brought out through dry vinification to be one of the greek vineyard “protagonists”. It has been almost ben a century and a half since Gustav Klaus inspired the great sweet wine, wrote do..