Glassware and Serving Basics

Here’s a simple experiment you can try at home and amaze your friends. Select a favorite bottle of white wine and another of red. Set out three or four different glasses for each person. 

How to Taste Wine

So, how do you taste and evaluate a glass of wine? Follow our wine tasting tips below—but before you start, make sure you’re in the right tasting environment.

Red Wine Information & Basics

With hundreds of varieties of red wine grapes, there is as much red wine information to learn about as there are red grapes planted in all corners of the globe.

Wine and Cheese

Wine and cheese are two of life’s great culinary pleasures, and finding the perfect match can be a delicious endeavor. As with any wine and food pairing, there are a number of considerations, such as texture, acidity, fat and tannin.

Is Your Wine a Fake?

The Wine Enthusiast guide to safeguarding your cellar.

The recent trial and conviction of counterfeiter Rudy Kurniawan sent a ripple of panic through the wine world. While there’s no denying fraud is a real and growing problem, the odds you’ll buy a bogus bottle still remain very slim.

Top Wine Terms Defined

We’re popping the cork on wine’s most misunderstood words.

  Attention wine lovers: If you never fully grasped the meaning of “umami” or got tripped up talking about “terroir,” you know that the world of wine has its own (and sometimes incomprehensible) language.

The Wine Lover's Guide to Chili

Break out your favorite tasting spoon, because June is the height of chili cook-off season. And no one does chili—or cook-offs—quite like Texas.

The Perfect Pinot Grigio Pairing

Match your favorite summertime wine with this tasty grilled wonder from Ralph Scamardella, chef at Lavo NYC.

Behind the Bar: Bayou Berry Daiquiri

Recipe 

Courtesy Chris Benton, head bartender, Le Foret, New Orleans

“July and August are sweltering down here in Louisiana, but they are also the peaks of raspberry season,” says Benton. 

Perfect Raspberry and Wine Pairings

Expert: Bill Parker, beverage and bar manager, Lon’s at The Hermosa Inn, Paradise Valley, Arizona

Wine: Soter Vineyards’s Mineral Springs 2009 Brut Rosé, Willamette Valley

Cooking with Wine

Adding wine to your favorite recipe can impart wonderful flavor—but too much or the wrong style wine can put the kibosh on a potentially delicious dinner.

Charlie Papazian on Homebrewing

  Ask anyone in the beer industry about Charlie Papazian, and prepare for an earful of praise.

To wit: The founders of three of the most trailblazing craft brew companies—Sam Adams, Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada—all credit Papazian and his book as a major influence.
We sit down with the author and tap into his role as the king of homebrewing.