by joiedevin | Jul 13, 2021 | General Wine
Whether you take more than a few days to polish off a bottle of wine, or you have one really special bottle that you and a loved one want to save forever, there’s never been an effective at-home wine preservation system until the Coravin appeared on the market. This...
by joiedevin | Jun 25, 2021 | General Wine
Pairing cheese with wine. Winemaking and cheesemaking have been established, side-by-side, for centuries, so it’s no surprise that this food and drink combination go so well together. Both often take years of aging to reach maturation and optimum flavor, both require...
by joiedevin | Apr 9, 2021 | General Wine
Should you judge a wine by its closure? Cultural preconceptions aside, the stopper can tell a great deal about the wine it encloses. It can hint at longevity, quality, culture and history. Cork The world’s most widely used wine closure has been around for a while....
by joiedevin | Mar 25, 2021 | General Wine
The 2020 wine harvest looks pretty different in many places around the world mostly due to climate change which caused scorching heat and deadly wildfires in California’s Napa and Sonoma, drought and heat waves in France, and thunderstorms and tornadoes in Italy. In...
by joiedevin | Feb 3, 2021 | General Wine
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to get your house in order? Does this involve cleaning, organizing and generally taking stock of your ‘stuff’? Well, then it’s a great time to do an ‘inventory’ on your wine ‘cellar’ (even if it is fairly small in number). Take an...
by joiedevin | Dec 17, 2020 | General Wine
Wine can make a brilliant gift for the right people during the holidays, but which ones (the people and the wines)? How do you know what they like? And what would make it a personal gift? When you’re staring at rows and rows of wine at the store, you can start to feel...
