The relationship of grapes and soil-the concept of "terroir"-is at the heart of good winemaking. Here, oenophile, Dennis Overstreet, of "The Wine Merchant" in Beverly Hills,...
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Storing wine in the corner of your kitchen or dining room is fine for bottles that you plan to drink within a few days, but keeping wine at its best for weeks, months, and years requires that you give...
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Deciphering European wine labels-those on wines bottled in France, Germany, Spain, and Italy-can be somewhat confusing for wine consumers used to the straight-forward labeling of California. Although...
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Continuing the theme we started this morning about ordering wine in restaurants, here's a well-done video about "How to get the most from a wine waiter." Take a look:How To Get The Most...
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Tuesday morning the harvest season began at Mumm Napa winery, one of California's top producers of sparkling wine. The picking began before dawn at the Rodgers Vineyard, located just north of the...
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by tammy on May 12, 2007
Okay, I admit I'm spending way too much time on YouTube! I was looking through videos using the key word "wine," of course, and stumbled onto this bizarre music video. Yes, it is...
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by tammy on May 11, 2007
This is a wonderful video that shows and discusses natural winemaking at Lagarette. It's all in French, but even if you flunked French class like I did (okay, I didn't flunk but I didn't...
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by tammy on April 02, 2007
More and more it seems like the blogosphere is becoming the vlogosphere! And that includes winemakers who are more and more often picking up the video camera and showing consumers how they make their...
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by tammy on February 06, 2007
What amazed me about this video from Vilafonte is all the hand-work that is still involved with sorting the grapes for their wine. Sure, they have a huge machine, but this short video, one a half...
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by tammy on February 05, 2007
This is the first of a number of wine videos created by Vilafonté. How ultra cool is this!? Vilafonté has started Wine Reality TV, which basically includes lots of wonderful web-based videos about...
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