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There are a number of funny things that can happen to a wine, and even though the wine may still be good there are not many who would drink an off wine. Luckily are there fixes to many of these problems that are simple and make the wine drinkable and indeed enjoyable. Wine, young [...]
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Wine should not be exposed to large amounts of sunlight, this is common knowledge. A little indirect sunlight is not going to ruin wine immediately, or else stores would have them in a cave; but if ever wine bags are not an option and sun is a danger there are more options than just hiding [...]
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Even the only occasional wine drinkers require a few wine accessories to enjoy a glass of wine. While a growing number of bottles are screwcaps, corks are still widely used; so at the very least a wine glass, corkscrew and stopper are needed. Rather than think of these tools as a necessary evil, think of [...]
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Red wine is both an enjoyment and a constant threat in a way. Especially at parties when those six bottle wine totes are involved in the shopping and even at simple dinners when one bottle is all that gets touched, red wine can ruin the evening. One little slosh and the host has a mess [...]
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While they may seem as old as the ancient tradition of wine making, glasses are a much newer advent. A wine glass with bowl, stem and foot as we know it today would have been hard to find before the industrial revolution. Glass was hard to make before then, making a wine glass just as [...]
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Wine can be a real undertaking to make. Between growing the grapes, fermenting, bottling and selling it can seem to take a village just to produce a bottle. This makes it easy for wine to become part of a big industrial effort but on a small French island the process is still done by only [...]
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A lot of the time in wine reviews there are certain wines that are said to be for drinking now. This can be a bit alarming to some readers, which makes it strange that the phrase is still used to frequently. This phrase doesn’t mean that if a wine isn’t drank immediately it will turn [...]
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Having only been around for about four years, this is an extremely new trend in the ancient world of wine, but glass “corks” are still an almost unknown brilliant idea. Originally made more out of necessity than any aesthetic reason, these glass stoppers are a tool in fighting against the compound TCA that makes “corked” [...]
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Sometimes even good wine can have things that look like problems with them or the bottle or cork; even if the wine is still good. While rare these things can be confusing when encountered by the average wine drinker. These visual problems can include things like sediment in the wine and crystals on the cork. [...]
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Having some guests over and wanting to serve some wine with a cheese platter is actually a bit of a task. A typical cheese platter has a combination of cheeses, fruit and crackers on it and all are supposed to pair with the wines being served. But this is a great undertaking for something that [...]
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