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Top 6 Wine Faults: Their Causes & How to Identify them?
Our infographic helps you learn about the most common wine faults, how to identify them, and what causes them. We’re also giving tips on how to eliminate some of them, or temper their negative effect. Wine faults are a pain in the neck! One carefully…
Read MoreJudging at Los Angeles International Wine Competition
Have you ever attended an International Wine Competition? Well I have, and this my story. As always with wine, this is a story of sharing – through judging in this instance. Just a few weeks ago, I was judging at the Los Angeles International Wine…
Read MoreTop 50 Most-Expensive English Wines
English wine, sparkling that is in particular, is very trendy and has benefitted from growing buzz over the past few years. It is often said to approach the quality of France’s best Champagne wines! In this Era of global warming, England benefits from its famously-cool…
Read MoreHow Will Blockchain Technology Change Wine?
Interview with wine counterfeit expert Maureen Downey about the foreseeable future of applying Blockchain Technology to the wine industry. Maureen Downey is a wine fraud specialist who played an important role in the Rudy Kurniawan investigation, the greatest wine scam in US that shook the wine…
Read MoreInfographic: Wine Bottle Anatomy
As opposed to wine bottles themselves, the anatomy of a wine bottle holds no secret and is fairly straight forward. Still, there is some specific vocabulary any wine lover, wine student, wannabe wine professional or sommelier has to know. To keep things simple and easy…
Read MoreTop 25 Most Expensive Spanish Wines
Spain has a long and ancient History of winemaking we’ve all heard about, dating back and even preceding the importation of the wine culture by the Romans. The country boasts the largest vineyard surface area in the world, and has in recent years positioned itself as…
Read MoreInfographic: Guide to Pairing Wine & Food
This guest post was written by Adam Stevens of Corr Chilled exclusively for Social Vignerons. Properly pairing wine with food can truly transform a meal. A simple sea bass paired with a lovely Sauvignon Blanc is delightful, or even better, a beautiful steak paired with…
Read MoreProsecco & Italian Cheese Pairings: A Tasty & Healthy Meal Idea
Many Italian Cheeses have the great advantage from a wine pairing perspective, of being relatively subtle in flavors, featuring and showcasing the natural taste of the milk they were made from rather the powerful savors (and smell!) acquired through a long ageing. Think French cheeses…
Read More2018 Top 40+ Wine Influencers: Who to Follow on Social Media?
2017 has come and gone, and we are well into 2018 by now. It is therefore clearly time for our traditional yearly list of top wine influencers on social media. While we use to base our ranking on the already-imperfect Klout score, Klout is of…
Read MoreTop 20 Most Expensive Champagne Wines
Champagne sparkling wine has long been synonym of luxury, opulence, and festivity, celebrated by kings, world leaders, and celebrities all over the globe for the past few centuries. It is also a mark of extreme refinement when it comes to bubblies, with many prestige cuvees…
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