Learning about wine and pursuing my Sommelier Dreams here in the Windy City. January is typically a slower time for wine events here in Chicago, but definitely circle February 27th. Tickets are available at this site. Also come packaged with your ticket. Revisiting the 1980 Grgich Hills Taste-off.

Blogging on wine and all things related! Thursday, 1 March 2012. Vin De Constance the South African Legend. The story of this legendary wine begins in 1685 with Simon van der Stel, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. A dynamic, energetic man, he was the first to realise that the small colony was not merely a halfway house, but a place of real significance.

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Missä kaikkialla viiniä voi viljellä? January 9, 2017. Marraskuisen Napa Valleyn viinitarhoja vuonna 2011. Usein kuulee sanottavan, että Saksa on pohjoisinta aluetta, jossa viiniä voidaan kasvattaa. Nyrkkisääntönä viininviljelysalueet sijoittuvat 30 ja 50 leveyspiirin välille sekä eteläisellä e.

A topic on the mind recently are medals or awards on bottles of wine. Depending on who is involved in the conversation, this could be a differing off perspective between on premise and retail, or between consumer and producer. The question is; what exactly does a medal say about a wine? Barossa, the Mothership.