Category: Wine
May
30
How High Elevation Wines are Taking Spain to New Heights
How High Elevation Wines are Taking Spain to New Heights One of the most important components in an elegant wine is the region’s terroir. Learn how elevation is being used to create a unique Spanish style. By Michael Schachner If you stand atop a plateau in the eastern reaches of the Ribera del Duero […]
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May
30
Popping Off: The Most Popular Prosecco Brands Of 2017
Popping Off: The Most Popular Prosecco Brands Of 2017 It’s the bubbliest time of the year. While there are many options out there for sparkling wine, Prosecco is among the most pervasive. In fact, Prosecco sales are currently outpacing all other sparkling wines worldwide. It makes sense — Prosecco is often incredibly affordable, clean, […]
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May
30
Prosecco, Prosecco Superiore, & Cartizze: Incredible Values from the Best Producers
Prosecco, Prosecco Superiore, & Cartizze: Incredible Values from the Best Producers Sales of Prosecco are exploding in the US, UK, Italy, and everywhere else where consumers seek sparkling wine at an affordable price. In this article, we review the best of the current releases. Those who can afford to drink Champagne may turn their noses […]
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May
30
How Cru Beaujolais Became A Somm Favorite
How Cru Beaujolais Became A Somm Favorite By Courtney Schiessl Sommeliers tend to be opinionated people. We have given a lot of thought to grapes, regions, producers, pairings, serving temperature, and glassware, and are more than happy to vehemently discuss and debate all of them over bottles of wine. Yet certain wines are are almost […]
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May
30
Exclusive: Sparkling Wine Driving Industry Growth In 2017
Exclusive: Sparkling Wine Driving Industry Growth In 2017 Facing fierce competition from spirits and a still sluggish on-premise environment, the U.S. wine market is projected to inch ahead at a modest 1.1% pace this year and reach 330 million nine-liter cases. The projected increase will mark the wine category’s 24th consecutive annual gain, according to […]
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May
30
Champagne, Prosecco and Cava Recommendations for Your Holiday Celebration
Champagne, Prosecco and Cava Recommendations for Your Holiday Celebration by Nancy Parode There’s nothing more festive than a glass of Champagne or sparkling wine. We toast the old and new years with glasses of bubbly, send brides and grooms into their new lives with raised glasses and kick off holiday celebrations with that well-known popping […]
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May
30
Nine Cava wineries to visit
Nine Cava wineries to visit Decanter Staff February 8, 2016 If you’re visiting Barcelona, take a short trip over to one of these Cava wineries, picked by Sarah Jane Evans MW, and find out more about the popular Spanish sparkling wine… 2. Castellroig Pay a visit to the old eighteenth century cellar at Castellroig, which […]
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May
30
The Joy of Sharing with Vin de France
The Joy of Sharing with Vin de France Good news for French wine fans: the Vin de France label represents delicious, easy-drinking, excellent value wines that embody the French way of life. This forward-thinking classification gives French producers the freedom to source the very best grapes from any vineyard in France, which they can use […]
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May
30
Ask a Winemaker – Dai Crisp
Thirty Years Growing Grapes in the Willamette Valley – Dai Crisp Ask A Winemaker featured Lumos Wines’s Dai Crisp. Dai Crisp is the winemaker at Lumos Wines and a leader in organic farming in Oregon’s Willamette Valley at the Temperance Hill Vineyard. Click here to learn more about Lumos Wines
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May
30
How Millennials Are Changing the Wine-Selling Game
How Millennials Are Changing the Wine-Selling Game Focusing on authenticity and adventure to make the sale Kathleen Willcox September 20, 2017 Some may find millennials’ unsubtle embrace of kale, unicorns, and Instagram tough to take, but the widespread mockery has become as predictable and self-defeating as a “Scooby Doo” villain’s lament (“Those meddling kids!”). […]
