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Best cheap red wine in 2024? Get the secret list here. Whatever you earn every month or your economic situation, everyone loves discovering bargains, especially in today’s tough economic times where inflation seems unstoppable, especially for wines. Red wine prices have risen significantly in the past three years, but some hidden gems remain to be…

Rose wine, it seems logical to many, results from blending white wine with a little red wine until the desired color appears, right? Actually, no. Rose wines can be made using a few different winemaking methods, but assemblage does not count among them. These wines, which can vary in color from light grey-pink to nearly…

Delicious Rose Wine: What to Consider There’s hundreds, nay thousands of glorious options in the rose wine category. How can one ever decide which delicious rose wine to choose? What are the most important factors that determine the best rose wines? Bevinars’ wine experts here to help you encounter delicious rose wines at the price…

The wine world story about the historic wine competition between California and France, now known as the 1976 Judgment of Paris, is celebrated by many wine enthusiasts. And wine movie buffs will certainty remember “Bottle Shock” (2008), which dramatized the role of Steven Spurrier in staging this industry-changing showdown and created an indelible portrait of…

What is the Real History of the Wine Bar? In 1979, Decanter covered a new British wine bar, “called Fagins Wine Bar, it harks back in atmosphere to the time of Dickens: The lighting is subdued, the decor Dickensian and pleasing.” This was a shift, because the 1965 Guide to London Pubs reported that “all…

The Wine and Spirit Education Trust, better known as WSET, is a world leader in wine education. Originally established in 1969 to increase professional knowledge and skills in the UK wine trade, it has expanded into every major part of the world. Their qualifications are generally recognized worldwide. Increasingly, a lot of people take WSET…

What do Sting and Post Malone have in common, or how about Nicki Minaj and Boz Scaggs? Can we add Dave Matthews? Music Superstars and Wine These musical superstars all, at some point or another, played a major role in the world of wine. Many still do. Sting owns Tenuta il Palagio; Nicki is a…

If you enjoy wine, you’ve probably noticed many wines use the names of the grape variety to distinguish the wine. This usually means that 75-100% of the wine inside came from one varietal or cultivar. Each grape variety is distinguished by unique characteristics; no two varietals are identical in aromas, flavor, texture, or color. The…

To keep or not to keep, that is the question. Many people think that wine, with its relatively high alcohol concentration, will be preserved for days or weeks after a bottle is opened. This is actually true for only a small portion of wine types such as Port or most of the wines from Jerez…

Chenin Blanc counts, alongside Riesling, as a wine varietal that most vinophiles greatly value but that the rest of us may not understand. Is Chenin Blanc dry or sweet? That, for example is a classic question about this super white wine. Chenin Blanc Taste Versatility jumps to mind when speaking of Chenin Blanc, also known…

Investment wines. They possess digitzed scores by “objective” critics, limited production dates, historical auction prices, even published indices and “accurate, real-time transaction prices.” This is the numericization of fine wine, where numbers represent aroma, tannins, flavors, balance, and structure. No need to taste, just look at the numbers! Purely investing in fine wine, without ever…

Wine should be enjoyed. Enjoying wine increasingly more each day involves enhancing your wine knowledge, just like a bit of understanding regarding music will upgrade your experience in listening to a symphony. Even a little bit of know-how—from learning wine basics—will go a long way. So, here’s a roadmap to basic wine knowledge. What is…

Reds Have Changed An era existed not so long ago when a red wine, if not decidedly chewable, could not be considered a red wine . . . and when spreadable jam on the palate was the flavor profile deemed acceptable. This, in and of itself, may have turned some people off to red wine.…

More than any other wine venture, last century’s Opus One project expressed the aspiration, nay the vision, of creating Napa Valley wines that would rival the grand crus of Bordeaux. That vision spread, rapidly, within Napa. With the sometimes fractious entrepreneurial union of two great winemakers—one from France and one from the United States—it also…

Best Value Wine Regions Who doesn’t seek good value in a wine? Even wine collectors may pay a pretty price for treasured selections that will increase in value, but for everyday wine enjoyment, high wine quality for an affordable price rules the day. Well-known Bourgogne (Burgundy) wines present the best current example of non-value options.…

Those old enough will remember Japanese sake’s vicissitudes over the past ninety years. Americans talked about the Japanese rice wine a lot during World War II, but then it was the enemy’s peculiar drink. It experienced a decade of popularity from the late 1950s to 1970, when Japanese culture drew popular interest; this was the…

If any wine embodies a “big,” almost Texan spirit, it is the richer style of California Chardonnay: big weight, big alcohol, and big hints of tropical fruit and oak. But lighter and less oaky styles exist, both in California and especially in its spiritual homeland, the Burgundy region of France.