Hello and welcome to Wine Wednesday, the perfect time for a mid-week wrap-up of what’s been going on in the wine world. As you probably know by now we don’t just love wine, we love reading about wine and connecting with other wine lovers online. This means we’re also staying on-top of the latest wine […]
Archive | September, 2011
Australian Wine Basics: Cool Climate Wine from the Land Down Under
The following is a guest post from Australian wine aficionado Luke Summers. When Morgan asked me to write a guest post on the topic of Australian Wine, I wanted to offer something more than the usual banter about Shiraz from the Barossa Valley or Cabernet Sauvignon from the Coonawarra region. To some extent, these bold […]
The Fabulous Four Wine Blog Posts of the Week!
Hello and welcome to a new feature here on BlogAboutWine.com – the Fabulous Four Wine Blog Posts of the week! Since we read a lot of other wine blog we thought it would be fun to share articles that we enjoyed with our readers each week. There are some absolutely incredible bloggers out there sharing […]
Waiting for Godot: A Story of the 2011 California Wine Harvest
2011 has been anything but a normal year for wine-makers in California. The Central Coast had problems with frost in the spring and then endured some pretty epic rain in June. These are both critical times for wine grapes and now that it’s time to harvest, some winemakers are having to spend more time waiting […]
Know Your Wines – Viognier
When most people think of white wine they immediately gravitate towards Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. Viognier may be one of the best, albeit often unknown, white wines. Viognier has a lot of history and is known as an “ancient grape.” In fact, Viognier is so ancient that nobody actually knows the origin of the grape! […]
Wine Tasting Week: Wine Tasting For The Under 30 Crowd
Welcome to the last day of Wine Tasting Week here on BlogAboutWine.com, we hope you’ve enjoyed the adventure! To end this series we’ve decided to include something for the under 30 crowd. We scoured You Tube and found a great video with wine tasting tips for the 21-30 crowd. The example they give in the […]
Wine Tasting Week: Wine Tasting Myths Exposed!
Hello and welcome back to Wine Tasting Week here on BlogAboutWine.com! There are so many different methodologies for tasting wine that a lot of myths have been introduced. When you are just learning wine tasting basics it can be hard to determine what is true and what is exaggerated. We recently found a great video […]
Wine Tasting Week: How To Taste Wine
As you probably know by now, we love wine tasting. We feel very lucky to live in California where beautiful wine country is so close. This week we are on a cruise to Grand Cayman and Cozumel…but while we’re cruising, we’re also blogging. So hello from the high seas and get ready for Wine Tasting […]
Our Latest Wine Tasting Adventures in Paso Robles
I can’t say that there’s ever a rhyme or reason to which wineries we visit on a given tasting trip. While we certainly research wineries and plan a route invariably we find ourselves off the beaten trail visiting a winery we didn’t even know existed…but that’s the fun of wine tasting isn’t it? Our last […]