We have used this Pinzon cork puller for several times a week for a year and it remains the easiest portable puller we have encountered. I read a review by "Calamity Jane" that was completely contrary to our exerience with this cork puller. I can only say that I understand why she chose that name. While I do not expect the Pinzon cork puller to last a decade, mostly because of its relatively high plastic content, I have not found any weakness yet. Since ours came with an extra cork screw... Read Full Story
NEW YORK - (Business Wire) France’s Loire Valley is well known for producing reference point wines using grape varietals such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Melon de Bourgogne and Cabernet Franc, among others. Now, a three year, 2.6 million Euro marketing campaign in North America is helping consumers connect these popular grape varietals to the regions within the Loire Valley that helped make them famous, such as Sancerre, Vouvray, Muscadet and Chinon. www... Read Full Story
People have always had problems opening wine bottles which are closed with corks for hundreds of years! Wine corks where designed to keep wine from turning sour, although we drink wine soon after we get it. A lot of wines are moving to screw caps and artificial corks, although the cork will be with us on numerous types of wine maybe always. We might have very poor selection of corkscrews to this day, but did you know that in 1700's lots of patents emerged in countries all over the world for... Read Full Story
Web Exclusive Price Bredon Brut NV Champagne, France
Description: This excellent-value champagne is made exclusively for Waitrose. Smooth and fruity. Made by the award-winning team at Piper & Charles Heidsieck from mainly black-skinned grapes, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier – with just a splash of Chardonnay. Lightly toas
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December 1st, 2009 | admin | new diet
Wine is an alcoholic beverage produced by fermenting crushed grapes using variety of yeasts depending on what kind of wine is needed to be produced. Yeast converts the sugar found in grapes and convert them into alcohol.
There are other fruit varieties that can be fermented such as apples and berries they are known as fruit or country wine. There also others that are made from starch”based materials and almost resemble beer such as barley... Read Full Story
Robert Parker rated the 2007 Southern Rhone vintage 98 points and here is a prime example of why. A great discovery, this Chateauneuf du Pape is estate bottled by a small family owned domaine. Domaine de L?Arnesque owns 11 acres of vines in the Arnesque district, just south of Mont Redon. The vines are cultivated and harvested by the family and the wine is made and bottled in their chai. Like the wine of a few other very prestigious properties, this wine is 100% Grenache. Aged 6... Read Full Story
Robert Parker rated the 2007 Southern Rhone vintage 98 points and here is a prime example of why. A great discovery, this Chateauneuf du Pape is estate bottled by a small family owned domaine. Domaine de L?Arnesque owns 11 acres of vines in the Arnesque district, just south of Mont Redon. The vines are cultivated and harvested by the family and the wine is made and bottled in their chai. Like the wine of a few other very prestigious properties, this wine is 100% Grenache. Aged 6... Read Full Story
Petite pearl
Minneapolis, Minn. -- The development of cold-hardy grape varieties in breeding programs such as the University of Minnesota have made grapegrowing possible in the cold climates of the northern Midwest and New England. Now growers in those regions have a new red variety to add to the mix.
Tom Plocher, a Minnesota grape breeder, has just released Petite Pearl, a promising new cold-hardy red winegrape with a high degree of disease resistance and excellent wine... Read Full Story
Does this happen to you too? Whenever I make plans to go to a nice restaurant, one decision always seems to consume my mind. No, I'm not trying to figure out what to wear, or even what to eat... I'm just trying to figure out what to DRINK. You'd think that I'd be a pro by now, but the opposite is actually the truth. Despite the fact that I should be worried about packing for my trip to Miami, my mind is preoccupied with figuring out which bottle of wine to order with a nice steak dinner... Read Full Story
I was in the grocery store earlier this week picking up items to make “Tim’s $5.75 Spaghetti” when all of a sudden I had a hankering for some Tri-Tip. So I picked up a little 2.5lb steak for 10 bucks and carried on with the shopping. I ended up in the wine department, as always, and did a quick scan for new items and mark-downs. I came across a coupon hanging on a bottle of wine, it read:
Buy 3 bottles of Chalone, get $7 off meat purchase. The Chalone Monterey Cabernet was $16.99 a... Read Full Story
