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.

Recipe of the Month: Cold Stone Greenery

Eat light and stay cool this summer with this chilled English pea-and-fava-bean soup with Dungeness crab salad from Eric Bauer, executive chef at Veladora in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

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.

Bordeaux’s Best Whites

  Bordeaux is a region of blended wines, producing styles that have influenced many of the world’s wine producers.

What's the Story of Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon blanc is a green grape variety which originating from the Bordeaux region of France.

The grape gets it name from the French word sauvage ("wild") and blanc ("white") due to its early origins as an indigenous grape in western France.

Bordeaux Wine the "King of Wine"

Bordeaux wine has long been known for its extraordinary wines for decades and has been deemed the “King of wines”.

What Makes Champagne Bubble

Ever wonder what makes champagne champagne? What makes champagne bubble? It’s wine isn’t it? Well here is another champagne fact for you.

Understanding Food And Wine Pairing

Food and wine pairing is as versatile as different styles of wines. The old adage of whites with fish, and red with meat is gone.

Champagne Facts You Must Know

Champagne is one of the most famous and most admired alcoholic beverages in the world. Champagne is associated with all types of celebrations. Hence, a lot of people want to know about champagne facts and champagne brands.

Chile's Wine Regions

From north to south, and from the Pacific to the Andes, this sliver of a country boasts a collection of distinct terroirs—and wines to match. 

Italian Wine Facts

In ancient times, the Italian peninsula was commonly referred to as enotria, or “land of wine,” because of its rich diversity of grape varieties and many acres dedicated to cultivated vines. In more ways than one, Italy became a gigantic nursery and a commercial hub fortuitously positioned at the heart of the Mediterranean for what would become western civilization’s first “globally” traded product: wine.

French Wine Facts

Despite a labeling system that is often confusing to many outside of France, French wine still gives the greatest pleasure of any wine producing region. The style of French wine echoes that of the French themselves—elegant, well-dressed, showing an appreciation for the good things of life but never to excess. French wines go best with food, never overpowering either in flavor or in alcohol, always well-mannered, often beautiful.