Wine knowledge

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• Choosing Wine

  A shop may display hundreds of wines from around the world. Choosing a bottle is easier if you remember that most wines fall into one of several main style groups. The wine love

• Creating A Cellar

  When you create and maintain a wine store, you’re aiming for not only an environment in which your wine will be happy, but one which, by being well kept, will never have you search

• Facts And Fallacies

  There are all kinds of misconceptions about wine – many of them wilfully promoted by the people who make the stuff, and by lazy wine-writer who merely copy what they have read else

• History of wine

  Wine has a long history, and individual bottles of wine can have their story too. These two aspects add greatly to wine's fascination, but wine's place in our cultural history is t

• Keeping Wine

  Wine has a rare quality among all our foods and drinks:It can improve for years. Good wine can get better, but not all wine improves with age, and wines age at different rates.

• Making of Wine

• Maturing Wine

  Wine-making has seen enormous strides in the last three decades, with the process and chemistry becoming well understood. The vineyard too has been the scene of great advances. But

• Serving Wine

  Serving wine covers what to do between choosing which bottles of wine to open and enjoying them in the glass. One can — indeed should — be very relaxed about this on most occasions

• Tasting Wine

  All day long we see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Most of the time we do so automatically: our senses react to stimuli in our surroundings, our minds barely aware of that reaction.

• Vintages

  One of the greatest areas of wine mystery and mystique is the difference between vintages. Was 1990 a good year for Chateauneuf-du-Pape? When ought I to drink my 1989 claret? Wh

• Wine Terminology

• Wine and Food

  Choosing wines to match a menu - or a dish to complement a special wine - offers scope for some exciting discoveries. When a particular glass of wine meets a certain dish in perfec