Whether you’re just starting your wine journey or are WSET certified, one of the best ways to sharpen your palate is through the Wine Tasting Challenge. The goal is to taste a new wine each week for 34 weeks to super-charge your wine smarts. Table...
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Tasting articlesPaso Robles does Rhône – blendsFriday 9 May 2025 See all Wine of the week Domaine de la Noblaie, Le Temps des Cerises 2023 Chinon A deliciously energetic Cabernet Franc ready for anything. From €11.40, £12.95, $22. He’s greying at the wings but has the energy of...
Smith’s tasting sheet includes the information that aromatic Acacia wood chips were added to the fermentation to impart a honeysuckle element to the nose and some tannin structure. In a sort-of solera system, two-thirds of a given year’s wine is bottled and the rest returned to barrel for...
I must admit that while I had some excellent food and wine, I did not in my short stay in Old Quebec have time to do a lot of wine tasting. (I dream of doing that on a summertime trip.) However, for those who think that Quebec has no wine culture, au contraire mes chers amis!
It's pure folly. January 23,24,25, 2012: Notes from a Cahors Tasting in WineTastingNotes. January 12, 2012: In WineTastingNotes My Wine of the Year. January 7, 2012: The Best Laid Plans Well, I was going to post -- belatedly, yes -- my Wine of the Year. (Surprise, it's ...
The reason for this shift from cork to metal is that an increased amount of wine is being contaminated by cork taint, leaving the wine tasting musty and dull. The culprit for this unpleasant phenomenon, which can spoil up to one in 10 bottles, is trichloroanisole (TCA), a compound formed...
Visit localwineries or tasting shops- If there are wineries near you that offer tasting parties to visitors, they'll go through a lot of wine corks. Believe it or not,nursing homes and assisted living facilitiesare great resources for corks. According to a good friend of mine, they drink...
And that brings us to the end of the 34 Wines 34 Weeks Tasting Challenge. Did you manage to keep up? Remember: just because this series is over, doesn’t mean you can’t keep going (or even start over!). Who says it has to be the 34 Wines in 34 Weeks Challenge? Maybe you wa...
When reading a tech sheet: Below 1% sweetness, wines are considered dry. Above 3% sweetness, wines taste “off-dry” or semi-sweet. Wines above 5% sweetness are noticeably sweet! Dessert wines start at around 7–9% sweetness. By the way, 1% sweetness equals 10 g/L residual sugar (RS)...