This afternoon, I was at the Brooklyn Winery in Red Hook and saw the staff using an incredibly fancy gas injection system to pour their wine. Needless to say, I was intrigued. I’ve seen so many different systems to take the corks out of bottles, but never anything that is designed to leave the cork […]
Category: Wine
Does wine need to breathe?
Letting the wine breathe, or aerate, is all about releasing the aromas and softening the flavors by exposing it to oxygen. The idea is that the wine has been sealed in a bottle with limited exposure to oxygen.
How to avoid a headache when choosing wine
Learn how to select the most appropriate wine to go with food or choose for a particular social occasion.
How to remove the broken cork from wine
As terrifyingly frightening as it is to get cork in your wine, it happens—usually with those expensive bottles of wine that you’ve been holding onto for that special occasion. So, why does this happen? Broken corks are, more often than not, caused by clumsy wine opening. Maybe your aim is bad, or it’s your first […]
John drinks wine, also
From my last post, you could probably tell that I have started to venture out into the world of wine. For now I don’t think I will really review wine, as seems to be a very complicated activity. However, I will, much like how I have been doing with cheese, offer my “two cents” and […]