What does wine taste like?
What does wine taste like? And why do we compare it to other foods? We look at the science behind wine’s flavors and fragrances.
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What is rosé wine? You should probably brush up on this delicious type of wine.
What is rosé? Is it mixing red and white wines? Does it mean you made white wine on the skins? Perhaps some other fruit has given the color? Actually, none of the above. While the earliest rosés were probably watered down red wine thousands of years ago, today we generally use rosé to mean a…
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The women of wine (plus some women-made wines you need to try)
Don’t buy into the myth: Women have been an instrumental part of winemaking since its inception. There’s a theory that women may have been the ones to discover wine — being the gatherers in a hunter-gatherer society — but it’s more than that. In ancient times, women were sometimes solely responsible for winemaking since it…
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The very very ancient history of wine: Part 1
Wine might be all the rage these days, but its creation could go back 66 million years. That’s right, the dinosaurs might have been the first to sip a lovely chardonnay (probably not literally, they prefer leafy greens, so maybe a sauv blanc). But eventually humans figured out a little bit about the process, and…
