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Serving wine with vegetarian food is the best way to bring out the natural flavours of both your food and drink. The combination of vegetarian food and wine is delightful, as the rich tastes of the wine pair perfectly with...

Orange wine is a bit of a misnomer. It is not a wine made with oranges, nor is it a Mimosa cocktail. Orange wine is something entirely different.   What is an Orange Wine? It’s a type of white wine...

Wine gathers aromas that are similar — if not identical — in their chemical composition to those found in pretty much any variety of fruit, but also nuts, herbs, spices, and even dairy products, bakes, mineral or animal sometimes! Tasting...

The Glera Grape behind Prosecco Wine Glera is the grape variety (the type of grapes) used to make the ultra-popular Prosecco sparkling wines. Glera is essentially the synonym of Veneto’s Prosecco grape of northern Italy. The name by which it...

With over 350 regional wines and over 500 native Italian wine grapes, how does one go about getting into Italian wine? These five Italian red wines are a great place to start –especially if you’re a beginner– because they absolutely...

What kind of wine is Prosecco? Prosecco is a type of sparkling wine produced in Italy, whose method of production and origin are strictly regulated and controlled. Prosecco must be Italian, and obey to certain quality standards. But Prosecco is...

Rosé happens when the skins of red grapes touch wine for only a short time. Where some red wines ferment for weeks at a time on red grape skins, rosé wines are stained red for just a few hours. The...

The variety in Italian wine is famously enormous. So many different grape varieties are made in different areas and villages. But the variety in Italian cheese is just as astonishing. To help you navigating through this ocean of deliciousness, here are...

What is the big deal about sulphur and wine? The ancient Roman and Greek civilisations were quick to discover sulphur’s qualities as a preservative. Sulphur was used to seal cracks in their amphorae but when it was used for internal...

Natural wine is the unrefined, unpolished version of what we know as wine. According to the latest edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine: Grapes are typically grown by small-scale, independent producers; Grapes are hand-picked from organic or biodynamic vineyards;...

The concept behind biodynamics is that everything in the universe is interconnected, including celestial bodies like the moon, planets and stars. Biodynamic viticulture tries to balance these interconnections between vine, man, earth and stars. Essentially, biodynamics is a holistic view...

The definition of organic wine is simple: It is made with organically grown grapes; It contains only organic additives (fining agents, yeast, etc.); It is processed with only a short list of chemicals additives;  It doesn’t contain GMOs or other...