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Safely Fly with Wine: How to Check-In Wine with Confidence

The best memories of wine travel vacations come when that first bottle of wine is opened at holiday time with friends and family— and, it’s perfect! But that doesn’t always…

The Sparkling Wines of Domaine Carneros – Tasting Reviews

As you know I am based in France, and here wines for California are very hard to get by and purchase. I do love my champagne French Champagne wines, but…

4 Reasons to Choose an Organic Prosecco Wine

Why would I choose and buy an Organic Prosecco or even more generally an organic wine instead of a conventional (non-organic) one? You might be wondering. Well, there are several valid…

Q&A with a wine influencer: Randall Grahm talks about social media

In the first of a Q&A series with social media actors of our Top 20 wine influencers, I have asked Randall Grahm to tell us about his success on Twitter…

2017 Top 20 Wine Influencers: Who to Follow on Social Media?

Update February 2018: The article and Top 20 Wine Influencers List below was published in January 2017, for a more recent list of Social Media wine personalities, follow the link below to…

Italian Wine & Cheese Pairing Part 2

The variety in Italian wine is just enormous. So many grape varieties turned into wine all around the country. But the variety in Italian cheese is just as overwhelming. There’s so…

Visiting Cognac: Prestige Tourism, Fireworks of Sensations

In the world of fine spirits, in the world of wine, and now also in the world of night clubs and jet-set parties, many know the joys of Cognac. Its…

Top 60 Most Expensive Languedoc Wines

The Southern French wine region of Languedoc, the biggest wine-producing area in the world, has known over the last couple of decades a total renaissance. From a region more known…

Q&A with a wine influencer: Jancis Robinson talks about social media

Jancis Robinson is a busy women. Her #2 position in our Top 20 Worlwide wine influencers on social media hasn't come by chance. Between many major wine publications, Jancis is…

5 Top Grapes Behind Italian White Wines

Italy is one of the few countries that look even better in real life than it does in pictures, or on the silver screen, and their wine is no different.…

11Dec

What You Should Know About the Best Wine Clubs

There are many wine clubs out there to choose from, regardless of what type of drinker you are. However, you can divide them into two broad categories for the purpose of narrowing your search to the best wine club: those dedicated to beginners and those…

19Jan

What is cork taint? Why are so Many Wines Corked? Top 5 Facts

I’m sure you know a lot about cork taint, or don’t you? Whatever you already know, I’m sure you’ll learn something here, from the Top 5 facts you didn’t know about cork taint. Why so many wines are corked, you may be wondering. If you…

27Aug

Stopping by at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Napa & Reviewing the Wines

On a quick road trip in Napa Valley earlier in August for the Wine Bloggers Conference #WBC16, I felt I had to stop by and see with my own eyes one of the most iconic Californian wineries. What is this wine whose 1973 vintage beat the…

21Jun

The Glera Grape behind Prosecco Wine in 1000 Words

Everything You Need to Know about the Glera Grape & Prosecco Wine… and more. Glera is the grape variety (the type of grapes) used to make the ultra-popular Prosecco sparkling wines. Glera is essentially the synonym of Veneto's Prosecco grape of northern Italy. The name…

24Oct

Wine Blogger Interview: Madeline Puckette of Wine Folly

‘Musician and graphic designer gone wine geek’, Madeline Puckette is arguably the most famous wine blogger out there, as Wine Folly, a site she founded in 2011, is without a doubt one of the very most, if not THE most successful of all wine blogs.…

11Mar

Q&A with a wine influencer: Randall Grahm talks about social media

In the first of a Q&A series with social media actors of our Top 20 wine influencers, I have asked Randall Grahm to tell us about his success on Twitter and other platforms. Randall Grahm is an enormous personality in the world of wine and…

31Jul

100 Top Famous Wine Names – A to Z

Find below a list of some of the most praised, popular and famous wines in the world, with their respective region of origin and country, ordered alphabetically. If this page is missing important wine names and needs updating, let me know in the comments at…

01Jul

Social Vignerons voted 2015 Best New Wine Blog

This is it, Social Vignerons has just been voted '2015 Best New Wine Blog' by the Wine Blog Awards. Needless to say how important this 'tittle' is to me and the future of this website. An acknowledgement of the effort put into sharing, into sparking…

07Nov

Top 25 Most Expensive Bordeaux Wines

Bordeaux wines aren’t exactly renowned to be affordable ones! At least, that’s the reputation Bordeaux wines have acquired over the past decade or two, with the top estates now commanding very high, often speculative pricing. But let’s not forget that Bordeaux is the second biggest…

15Mar

Calories in Wine: Top 7 Facts

Yes, I have bad news for you: there are a fair bit of calories in wine ☹ There is a reason why it is often said: “Wine IS Food.” As we know, wine is made of grape juice which is one of the sweetest fruit…