Mobile apps exist to make your life easier and better. When it comes to wine, this can mean a few different things: learn more about wine, helping you chose better wine, record your tasting experiences, get a better deal/price for your plonk, find expert ratings,…

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…

Blanc de Blancs Champagnes are sparkling wines made exclusively with white grape varieties (as opposed to the Blanc de Noirs made with red grapes) grown in the Champagne region. While other white grape varieties are allowed in Champagne, practically, almost all Blanc de Blancs are…

Uncorking a bottle of wine without a corkscrew, using just a shoe, is a bit of a myth in the wine community. Not that many of us have actually tried it. So, does it actually work in real life? It all starts with a moment…

Riesling is certainly one of the most famous white grape varieties in the world, giving birth to many of the world’s most expensive wines. Its crisp minerality and distinctive fresh fragrance allows winemakers around the globe to produce top quality still white wines (Riesling is rarely made into…

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 many different wines and cheeses in Italy, that with our partners at His and Her Wine,…

Generally speaking, growing healthy grapes for producing quality wine can require a lot of spraying in the vineyards, and the use of important quantities of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, etc. I remember learning while attending University in the early 2000s, that French viticulture alone was using…

Everything you’ve been wondering about Prosecco sparkling wine. We’ve gone through all the most common questions you have about Prosecco bubbles, to get you to understand the essence of this ultra-famous but sometimes misjudged Italian wine. For information about the National Prosecco week, read on…

The world of wine is full of wonders. A wonderful world from the great variety of delicious wines that we love to highlight in our wine reviews. But there are also absolute wonders and surprises in the world of wine accessories, from the weirdest to…

There is no such thing as a perfect white wine… in absolute. Like there is no such thing as perfect people. There are some extraordinary wines. But most have their own personality we simply need to learn how to appreciate. There is such a thing…