Perhaps you have heard about such an interesting sort of tasting wine which is called mulled wine. In this column we will tell you about when and where it is good to taste it and tell you one of the best recipes of it.

When it is cold in the street and you feel so comfortable sitting near your fireplace or wrapped in a warm blanket at home there is nothing more delicious and great than to taste some mulled wine. This type of wine is used by people for centuries to feel themselves warm, it is like a brilliant alternative to such warm drinks as coffee, hot chocolate and tea, also you can apply it if you want to organize a party and haven’t obtain any thoughts what drink to serve there. People use this drink like a treatment to prevent catching a cold in such chilly winter weather. Continue Reading »

We know that the audience of our site consists predominantly of wine lovers. So we are sure you are always happy to learn something new from the fabulous world of wine. Today we will talk about the influence of music on wine, intrigued? Then be the first who will discover it.

In 1999 in such a noble wine magazine as “Journal of Applied Psychology” was published an article by Adrian C. North, David J. Hargreaves and Jennifer McKendrick which was called “The Influence of In-Store Music on Wine Selections”. In this article authors were trying to investigate the influence of national music on purchasing wine. For example, if in the store where you want to buy a wine is playing French music with what probability you would buy a wine produced in France. So in one store they started to play French music for a week and for another week in the same store they played German music and it really increased the number of purchased wines of German and French production. This research proved a fact that national music playing in the store can influence on your selection of wine. Continue Reading »

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We are sure you have heard that there are several types of wine glasses and we are very happy for you if you can choose a right glass for a right kind of wine because it can make the process of drinking wine more delicious and pleasant. But if you don’t know anything about different types of wine glasses and haven’t any guess how to choose them for different types of wine, then hurry up to read this column to discover more info about it.

First you need to remember that there are four chief types of wine glasses which will be good to apply with four different kinds of wine: white, red, sparkling and dessert.

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Today we will tell you about the first mentions about wine in our history, you will read about different myths and legends, full of true and imaginary facts. But who will tell you directly how it was? We can only guess how it was indeed and admire this awesome drink.

Wine in ancient times…

Due to ancient Persian mythology wine was invented by a female. Legend says that she had a terrible headache and nothing could help her to cure of it, but once she drank a drink from a jar. Then she woke up at night and was very astonished to feel that her headache was over. That drink was a fermented grapes juice.

Lately wine was famous as a drink of all gods, no matter, they were of Greek, Sumerian or Egyptian origin. Due to the fact that the first gods of wine were women this drink became to be associated with fertility. Ancient people often used wine in their religious rituals. Egyptian people pictured wine on their papyri. Continue Reading »

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We are sure that all of our readers have heard about legendary Boston Tea Party, but do you know anything about Madeira Party, which was held some years before it? No, then this article will be interesting for you. Today we will tell you about American presidents and their favorite wine kinds, let us detect wine lovers among noble American politicians.

Some facts about Madeira Party…

This party was held a few years before famous Boston Tea Party, the main idea of this party was the same as at Tea Party – to show negative attitude to the British domination in America. We have to tell you that madeira wine was a favorite wine of American colonists and the origin of this negative attitude is connected with it. The deal was in the fact that British people tried to ration Madeira for colonists and by that reason they seized the shipment with a cargo of Madeira that was consigned to John Hancock. Hancock started the conflict and received his wine back, lately he was first who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Continue Reading »

If you are passing through this site, then you are surely in the number of wine lovers. We all like this awesome drink and everybody of us has its own favorite kind of wine. But practically nobody can tell you how this wonderful drink was created. Of course we have official history of its invention, but at the same time we have several interesting legends about some kinds of wine creation and today we will tell you them.

First wine legend brings us to such region of France as Burgundy. Nobody knows when it was but there was a peasant and he was called Bertin. Once he decided to grow grapes in his field. Field in French sounds like “champ”, so he planted his field with grapes and then he produced a wine from it. That wine was so great and became popular among town inhabitants, lately they called it “chambertin wine”. That name they created combining the name of a peasant with the field where it was grown.

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New Zealand is counted to be a new world wine country, but despite this fact you can hardly find such taste of wine which New Zealand wines obtain. Such New Zealand wine styles as Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are famous all over the world. All this is connected with perfect climate conditions that guarantee long sunshine hours and good temperature value, but of course wine making would be impossible without great desire and skills of New Zealand wine makers.

Today our talk will be about so aristocratic kind of wine as Pinot Noir. Pinot Noir was brought to New Zealand in 1975 and for the next ten years they produced it in the Wellington region of this country, in a small town called Martinborough. Also they used this kind of grapes for producing sparkling and high-fermented type of new zealand wine as Chardonnay. Today Pinot Noir kind of grapes is counted to be one of the most widespread kinds of red grapes in New Zealand and Pinot Noir style in wine is proclaimed as one of the most desirable ones. Continue Reading »

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In the previous article we discussed such a continent as Africa and spoke about wine history of this country. Today we will discover where they grow grapes for their wine – in other words, we will talk about wine areas of South Africa.

Wines from South Africa differ from other wine labels by their relatively low prices and a great variety of quality level. South Africa is counted to be famous as New World wine country because they not far a long reached the world wine market, despite the fact they started their way of winemaking in the 17^th century.

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In our previous articles we discovered many countries and continents where people produce wine, except Africa and Antarctica. Of cause as for Antarctica now we have not any facts about winemaking industry there, but as for Africa we have got a lot of information to tell you about it and it is even some kind of shame we didn’t tell you about it before.

So let us start our conversation about this continent with wine making history of South Africa. It starts in 1652 and it is connected with the arrival of settlers from Europe to this continent. Three years later the head of company in India, Jan van Riebeck, planted first grape in the Table Bay area. And in 1659 he was very happy to report that first south africa wine was produced. At that time the only region of grapes growing in Africa was located in Cape. Continue Reading »

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Without a doubt this is the only wine region people can name you if you ask them: “What do you know about wining in Australia?” And be sure that if they won’t mention even this region they know nothing about wine at all.

There well-known Australian wine producers grow their grapes – among them we can mark Penfolds , Peter Lehmann, Wolf Blass, Krondorf, Orlando, Seppelts and Yalumba. Also we can add to this list such boutique owners as Greenock Creek, Rockfords, Torbreck and others. Continue Reading »

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