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Handling Wine
Handling Wine Wine industry folks enlist additional tips and tricks for handling wine. Below you'll find some of our most popular articles on handling wine like a pro.
How to Get Started Tasting Whisky
How to Get Started Tasting WhiskyFor the uninitiated, the flavors, terminology, and the method of scotch tasting can seem daunting. If you sit down at your local bar and order up a Scotch, you’re likely to come aways disappointed. In the following, w
A Beginner’s Guide to Sake
What is sake? When you ask this question in Japan and then in the rest of the world, you’ll get two different answers. In English, “sake” refers to the alcoholic fermented rice beverage from Japan that you’ve probably sampled at your local izakaya (
Tasting Beer – Beer’s Basic Structure
A “beer gut” is something that happens to our bodies when we drink beer and don’t do enough (ahem, any) crunches. But beer has its own body, ironically gut-free, and understanding its basic structure might just help you get more out of your next bot
Buying Wine
Buying Wine The wine marketplace is constantly changing. It's also a big market. There are over 100,000 labels registered with the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) each year. Despite the vastness of options, there are some tactics you c
Wine and Food Pairing
Wine and Food Pairing A great wine and food pairing creates synergy together on your tastebuds. How? Well, the concepts of flavor pairing are moderately complex because they involve hundreds of compounds.
Develop Your Sense of Taste
Develop Your Sense of Taste Learn how to pick out flavors in wine and identify pesky wine faults. Additionally, your tasting practice will help you spot great quality too! Definitely check out this how-to video on the 4-step tasting method that's use
Wine Basics
Wine Basics Most wine is made with grapes, but they're not like the ones you find in the grocery store. Wine grapes (latin name: Vitis vinifera) are smaller, sweeter, have thick skins, and contain seeds. There are over 1,300 wine grape varieties used
