Drinks

Naturally, if your wine has won an award, you just want to flaunt, flaunt, and flaunt some more. Can it go too far? Buyer beware.

The CIA (Italian Farmers Confederation) is worried. The Chinese predilection for wine is growing, and so is their wine production. The alarming news is that they are keen to export.

The wine columnists at the Wall Street Journal had some deep insight into the wine-lover’s psyche. When you have a rather precious bottle in your cellar, insecurity and doubt rear their ugly heads. What is an occasion significant enough to pop that special cork?

No. Not Moses’ great tablets. These commandments attempt to put some order into our otherwise chaotic winestyles. Have a read, they are fun: The First Commandment

For our reference, here is a “Basic Dictionary of the Wine language”. This glossary was prepared by the people at www.wine.com.

As woman who lives half the time on a diet and the other half reading about diets, I am all for anything that helps…a low-cal wine? Is that possible? Or is it a “White Lie”

Mondovino. Have you seen it yet? It is a documentary film about wine, a French-American production directed by Jonathan Nossiter. It is encouraging that a film without a car chase and a “mano a mano” fight can make quite a splash.

After reading more about the Chateaux Margaux 1991 I learned that 91 was actually not a good year. There was a spring frost and this is bad news when it hits after the buds have sprouted. So if this was one of Bordeaux “feeble” years, I can’t wait to taste a good one!

What do you give the person who has everything? Well, even if he or she doesn’t have everything, provided they enjoy wine, Natalie Mac Lean from Nat Decants has put together a brilliant list of gift ideas for the wine lover. My favorite (in case my husband is reading this) is the Wine Atlas of…

Ahhh…my kind of news…. As reported by the Yale-New Haven Hospital: A glass of red wine a day keeps the doctor away Recently, researchers have found that moderate red wine consumption may be beneficial to more than just your heart. One study found that the antioxidant resveratrol, which is prevalent in the skin of red…

On Saturday I had quite an experience. We were invited to dinner over at the Mayor’s house. He is a true connoiseur and does not drink wine every day, only on special occasions. So our visit apparently qualified.