Impressionist painter Claude Monet ate his main meal at 11:30 a.m. so he could take advantage of the afternoon light. Monet would get upset if his talented cook, Marguerite, served the meal a few minutes late. Author Claire Joyes and photographer Jean-Bernard Naudin document the artist’s love o...
Interest in wines health benefits in the last two decades may have been sparked by a desire to establish a reason for the so called French Paradox. There is a where a lower incidence of heart disease is found in the French. The French have a diet rich in fat and it is rational to think this ant...
One would expect ice wine to have a long history in winemaking, but it does not. In fact, ice wine has only been around for about 200 years. The prevailing theory of its birth centers on a German winemaker who was surprised by an early frost. He decided to press the frozen grapes anyway, but sepa...
Have you ever come across what appear to be white flakes floating in your bottle of wine? Did you assume that this snow-globe appearance somehow meant the wine was flawed or ruined?
What you had most likely seen are tartaric crystals, commonly referred to as wine diamonds or Weinstein (wine...
Wine is an alcoholic drink made of fermented grapes. Drinks similar to wine can also be made of many other fruits or flowers but they need some name to differentiate them from grape wine (like honey wine).
Wine derives from the the Old English word win, that comes from the Proto-Germanic w...
