Wine Guide

o This tab allows you to learn more about wine in the following categories:

o Provides the definitions of some important wine terms

o General – basic terms affiliated with wine

o Tasting – sensory terms used to describe wine

o A description of different types of wine grapes

o Red – a listing and overview of the basic red wine grapes

o White – a listing and overview of the basic white wine grapes

o A general overview of some basic wine topics

o Buying – a guide to help novice wine buyers navigate a wine shop

o Storage – helpful hints on how to best preserve your unopened wine over time

o Temperature – outline of optimal drinking temperatures for different wines

o Bad Wine – how to determine if the wine you are drinking has gone bad

o New or Old World – defines and distinguishes between the two terms

o Visiting Vineyards – an overview of how to go about tasting at wineries

o A more in-depth look at a variety of wine topics

o Pouilly-Fumé v. Pouilly-Fuissé – a comparison between these two French wine terms, to help distinguish the two very different categories

o German Classifications – translates and defines the common classifications founds on German wines that describe sweetness and ripeness

o Our Wine References section contains a list of useful online and written wine sources

o In this section we provide a description of different wine regions.

o French – provides a basic overview of the major French wine regions. Very useful when trying to identify and buy French wine

o The Bottle of the moment lists the name and tasting notes of a randomly chosen wine from a public-users Bottle Log

o Beneath the Bottle of the moment is a link to that user’s Bottle Log