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Learn about tasting wine, wine pairing, reading the label, grapes across the world, distinguishing good quality from poor.
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Wine of the week-From Danny Gold
Sparkling Muscatel ? I can't wait to try it.
Tagged: sparkling_muscatel, wine
Started by Anthony Theobald Mar. 24, 2009.
History of Wine
Archaeological evidence suggests that the earliest production of wine, made by fermenting grapes, took place in sites in Israel, Georgia and Iran, from as early as 6000 BC. These locations are all wi…
Started by tasteandshare.com Oct. 14, 2008.
Tasting Wine
Wine tasting is the sensory examination and evaluation of wine. Wines may be classified by their effect on the drinker's palate. They are made up of chemical compounds which are similar or identical…
Tagged: grapes, vineyards, red wine, tastings, wine
Started by tasteandshare.com Oct. 14, 2008.
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Comment by Heidi on October 12, 2008 at 6:33pm - Looking forward to some much needed education, thank you!
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Comment by Hamish Wakes-Miller on October 9, 2008 at 7:51am - I've been in the European wine trade for 20 years. Based in the sunny south of France and jumping on planes too often. I love wine and love learning new things and tasting new wines. As you can not yet fax or email wine I am intrigued by the idea of an Online Wine Appreciation Course. I blog at http://bellawines.blogspot.com/
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Comment by www.WineGuy.info on October 8, 2008 at 7:56pm - I've been keeping my own wine blog for years...finally got it into something worth while for my friends and family to view. Most of the wines are in the 9-15 dollar range and I've been a little slack lately..but still fun. www.wineguys.info - I try to tell you what, where and with what I had it with and how much and where it's from...which is helpful in most of the current package stores ... since the separate by region.
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Comment by Amy S. on October 7, 2008 at 9:12pm - I don't know much, but I know what I like. I think this will be valuable.
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Comment by tasteandshare.com on October 7, 2008 at 9:10pm - Quality wine doesn't have to be expensive but I'm afraid the wine industry will get hit with the "down turn" as well (your comment was the first indicator). But that's just another reason to appreciate wine ;-)
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Comment by Marc on October 7, 2008 at 9:02pm - This sounds fun! I drank my through about a 14 of "Windows on The World" and stopped because it was getting expensive at at time when my industry took a down turn. Looking forward to this!
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Comment by tasteandshare.com on October 7, 2008 at 8:52pm
- ... oh, I agree. Wine deserves more respect :-)
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Comment by Stacey on October 7, 2008 at 8:34pm
- What a wonderful idea. Thank you for offering. Look forward to it.
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Comment by tasteandshare.com on October 7, 2008 at 8:24pm
- Thanks tcasey. .... and you will soon be a wine expert. :-)
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Comment by tcasey on October 7, 2008 at 8:21pm - This sounds like fun and I do like wine.
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