by Rhino Wino on November 1, 2011
There is also a bit of a panic when a new wine is needed that night, and it has to be good. But panic not, rather than look for a good wine online and hope some local shop has it, or look at the shop blindly and hope the workers know wine; try using the [...]
by Rhino Wino on October 31, 2011
Thinking about all of the holiday gifts that are needed to get can really make even just over a month seem like too short a time to get everything bought and wrapped. It is easy to check any wine lover off the gift list without ever needing to know their wine preferences though. A wine [...]
by Rhino Wino on October 27, 2011
There is a temptation sometimes in this busy world to make things less chaotic, to cut corners or take easier options. Some of these time savers are just that, a great way to shave a minute or two, but think carefully about which of these time savers are used because some will actually cost the [...]
by Rhino Wino on October 19, 2011
Strong flavors can be hard to deal with sometimes, smoked fish being an example of a harder flavor to pair with wine. In fact for most pairing advice smoked fish seems like a paradox. Fish is full of delicate flavors that are typically paired with a white wine, but smoking foods almost always adds deeper [...]
by Rhino Wino on October 12, 2011
Frozen wine may seem like a tragedy but it is really a fast and easy way to keep wine fresh in a pinch. A partial bottle of wine can simply be stopped or recorked and put in the freezer and saved for another time. Interestingly enough freezing wine does not damage its delicate tastes or [...]
by Rhino Wino on October 6, 2011
A lot of children are resistant to trying new foods, they seem to know for a fact that just the look or smell of the food means it is going to taste bad. On a lesser scale even an adult can pull this mental trick on themselves, even when they don’t try to, because the [...]
by Rhino Wino on September 23, 2011
Many are surprised to find that Canada has a thriving wine producing region. But indeed it does have a handful of suburb vineyards that are trying very hard to make a name for Canadian wine. Some of the regions known within Canada for their wine are Okanagan Valley, the Niagara Peninsula and Nova Scotia just [...]
by Rhino Wino on September 21, 2011
The tastes and smells that linger with the drinker after the sip of wine has left their mouth, either having been spit out or drank, if the most important factor in truly enjoying a good wine. The aftertaste is also called the “finish” and expert wine reviewers pay extra attention to how long a wine’s [...]
by Rhino Wino on September 20, 2011
There is something about cold weather that makes well cooked pork tenderloin even more enjoyable. But getting a pork loin to its tender and still juicy perfection can seem like more work than a simple weeknight meal is usually worth. Really though, a succulent pork loin can be just as easy as any other imaginable [...]
by Rhino Wino on September 9, 2011
While it is clear that decanting a wine softens and improves it, what happens to the wine on the molecular level? That is, why does merely sitting in a crystal wine decanters change a good wine so much? The changes to a deep red wine can be so dramatic that it can seem like some [...]