by jhschleckser | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
Making wine starts with grapes and most importantly, ripe grapes. The secret of the grower is to bring the grapes to their ultimate peak of ripeness, given their local weather and geography. The trick is to pick them as ripe as possible before colder weather or...
by jhschleckser | Jun 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
We’ve all seen the ratings of wines in in our favorite wine shop, usually wines with scores in the 80s or even 90s. 88 points! 92 Points! But what do these scores really mean? Are higher scoring wines definitively better? And what does a wine score...
by jhschleckser | Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Champagne. It just rolls off the tongue and sounds luxurious, just like you are about to celebrate a special occasion. But wine with bubbles is fun anytime and I’d suggest that we can never drink enough bubbles! We can thank the Benedictine Monks for creating...
by jhschleckser | Jun 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the parlor tricks that Sommeliers use to deepen their appreciation of wine is called deductive tasting. When doing this, they taste a wine without seeing the label on the bottle, or “blind”. Based on the various sensory input, they will deduce the grape,...
by jhschleckser | May 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you hang around wine people, you’ll hear the phrases new world versus old world wines. It seems like a simple phase but it has meaning for taste and other factors when you drink each of these wines. Larger scale wine production started with the Greeks and...
by jhschleckser | May 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
We’ve all seen it – wine connoisseurs swirling their wine, dipping their noses into the glass and taking a big whiff. But, is this the right way? How do the experts smell their wine? Glassware is the first thing that matters for the olfactory appreciation...
