Winexpression

With a little help from a press release (which I need these days thanks to a busy schedule), enjoy this post prepared by Rubenstein Communications, Inc.
It’s Bubbly Season:
Ten Tips to Enjoying Champagne Like an Expert
‘Tis the season when more than 40 percent of the year’s champagne bottles go a-popping! Champagne is the wine of [...]

Hot on Martha’s heels, Mr.Newman, under his namesake brand, plans to offer an organic Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon early next year. The 2006 vintage will be produced by Rebel Wine Co., the folks behind Three Thieves and True Earth Wines, and is estimated to go on sale for about $16. I’m guessing the vineyard [...]

Are you having trouble finding a bottle of wine you’ve been meaning to purchase? Do you like shiny Web 2.0 website ’s with a clean look and snazzy interface? Then look no further than Vinquire.com, a wine search engine that also offers user wine reviews, tailored wine recommendations and more. According to the press [...]

In a world that has been somewhat unchanged for years, John Glaser is beginning to turn some heads. His method is unconventional, although quite common in the wine world. His company, Compass Box, is responsible for producing around 6,000 cases of award winning Scotch a year, with one catch: they don’t make it. The [...]

The next time someone bursts onto your property and demands money, politely offer them a glass of wine. That seemed to work for the guests at a dinner party in Washington DC, when a hooded man slipped into the backyard, held a 14 year old girl at gunpoint, and demanded money. The five other guests [...]

The California State Fair Wine Competition went down last week Thursday, and Bronco Wines 2005 Charles Shaw Chardonnay was the resounding winner. The infamous 2 buck chuck received the highest accolades in the Chardonnay division, raking in 98 points, a double gold, with accolades of Best of California and Best of Class.
All I can say [...]

On the outskirts of Clermont l’Herault [Google Map] in the Languedoc Region of Sourthern France, you will find the ruins of the country’s earliest known winery.
Mini craters that once formed the bases of huge pottery wine vessels sit in neat rows where the old winery building stood. Each one held up to 1,800l, while irrigation [...]

President Vladimir Putin of Moscow met last week with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, and agreed to lift the ban that had been placed on Moldova’s wine.  This ban, which was imposed on March 25th, 2006, had a huge impact on the Moldovan wine industry, which relied on Russia for 60 - 80% of it’s exports. [...]

How do those wine tasting professionals identify all those flavors in wine you ask? The answer is simple: they learned, and you can learn too, simply by drinking wine. Note a recent study by researchers at Northwestern University who aimed to learn how the brain differentiates between similar smells and modifies and updates that information [...]

It started about 2 years ago, when wine makers from the U.S. and Europe signed a declaration to protect the place names associated with their wines. In January of this year, the European Union, responsible for overseeing the wine industry in Europe, recognized the significance of Napa Valley Terrior by granting it name protection,  the [...]