Archive for the ‘Vinopedia’ Category

Tips to Prevent Wine From Spoiling

Author: Shijina
Wine may have an acquired taste but their some cases where the wine tastes really bad as it might have been spoiled. The wine can get spoiled when it has not been properly stored or it has not been bottled properly. The wines can get spoiled even in cases where it has been left [...]

Tips for Wine Storage

Author: Shijina
For the wine lovers the collection of the different varieties of wine is one of the most preferred jobs. The more the number of wines they collect the more they become crazy to collect some of the ecstatic wines and of course they should know how well they need to store their loved [...]

Wine Numbers: 9892

9,892 feet is the altitude of Argentina’s Bodega Colomé, which is the world’s highest commercial vineyard.

Chenin Blanc and the Loire Region

Author: Lindsay Alston
Chenin Blanc is a white grape variety that appears to produce wines built to last eternally. While many Chenin Blanc wines are somewhat insipid, at their best they compete with the finest of any varietal. For the most part the best Chenin Blanc wines start young, with a level of acidity that disprove [...]

The Mourvèdre Grapes in Blending

Author: Lindsay Alston

The names Mataró and Mourvèdre may come from the towns of Mataró in Cataluña and Murviedro near Valencia, suggesting an origin on that coast. Though the origin of the grape may be Catalonian or Spanish, the name Mourvèdre is of French descent. The grape was accepted in the 16th century, and extends [...]

The Life and Times of Red Zinfandel

Author: Lindsay Alston
Red Zinfandel, also known as Zinfandel, is a type of red grape that is planted in over 10 percent of California’s vineyards. Usually, it is a robust Red Zinfandel, but in the USA it has also become a blush wine called White Zinfandel. White Zinfandel has over six times the sales of [...]

Wine Numbers: 400

400 years: That is the age of world’s oldest grape vine located in Maribor, Slovenia.
With an age of over 400 years it is registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest vine in the world. Local and French vine genetics experts from Paris confirmed the age by conducting precise measurements, besides it is [...]

How to Read a Wine Label

Author: David Cowley
When was the last time you went to a nice restaurant and ordered a bottle of expensive wine? When the waiter or waitress brought it over, did he or she show you the label before uncorking it? Did you understand anything on that label, or did you simply scan it [...]