Where is your wine from? Or, Appelation Demystified
Wines are about where they come from. There is a critical piece of info on a wine label I’ve been overlooking. When the label on a bottle of wine says [..]
Category: Wine
Enjoying your trip to a winetasting room
So you’re about to walk into a wine tasting room. Maybe you’ve never been, maybe you’ve done this before but never been quite sure how it’s supposed to go: do [..]
Bud’s Glögg (gløgg) (glug)
I guess it’s not too soon before Christmas to share the very best recipe for hot spiced wine I know. I make a single gallon of this at Christmastime every [..]
The Fascination of Ancient Beverages
I have a desperate fascination for ancient wines, beers, and meads. I love everything about them – trade patterns, methods of making and storing them, recipes, social usage, storage/presentation vessels, [..]
Books for Brewers: Historical Primary Sources for Brewers
Most recently updated October 21, 2017 I am chagrined each time I see someone online asking whether there are period sources. You bet there are! Here is a running list of [..]
Old Grapes, Lovely Wines: Muller-Thurgau and Tempranillo
All right, I need a break from writing about beer… so I’ll move over to something I honestly enjoy – wine. Muller-Thurgau is a lovely German white flavored with elderflowers. [..]
Passover: Are honey and grape wine kosher?
Talking with Lori Titus at The Bee Folks this morning (as I was picking up thirty pounds of buckwheat honey) she mentioned that their honey had been Star-K certified, and have [..]
Riesling – an historical grape
DNA studies by Ferdinand Regner indicates that one parent of the modern Riesling vine is Gouais Blanc, known in Germany as Weißer Heunisch , brought to Burgundy from Croatia by [..]
Tempranillo Wine, the rich Spanish red
Tempranillo is a variety of black grape native to Spain. It is called Spain’s “noble grape”, and is the main variety used in Rioja[1]. Spanish cultivation of vitis vinifera, the [..]
Müller-Thurgau : the perfect German table wine
Müller-Thurgau is a white grape created by Hermann Muller from the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1882. However, it is a cross of Riesling with Madeleine Royale[1], which is a [..]