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Wine Cooler at Home

Having the Whynter wine cooler at home is a good thing for you to have. If you live in an apartment where you only have small spaces to put things and wants to have good stuff like wine coolers, then you must think not only of its good feature but also its design. In choosing a good design that fits in your undersized space apartment, you should pick those eligible tiny sizes. Though there are many kinds of wine coolers in the market, you must still take a look closely at the product before you purchase it. Small wine coolers are not that kind of small in its feature but the best thing is that you can put it in small spaces where you cannot have problem on handling it. You can drink your cooled favorite sweet wines anytime you want especially when you are relaxing in your small spaced apartment after your school or work.

Girlfriends Wine Club

My girlfriends and I started a wine club last year. None of us has any real knowledge about wine, we just know what we like and what we don’t. We hold our own version of a blind wine tasting with five wines that cost under $20 each. We pick a theme like Italian wines or local wines, and we decide if we’ll taste reds, whites or somewhere-in-the-middle wines. The bottles are hidden in paper bags to conceal the labels, but honestly, it wouldn’t make a difference if we knew the wine maker anyway. We “sample” each of the wines and then write down our scores. Our scoring method is pretty simple. We give the wine we like the most a score of one, the one we like the least is a five and so on. The results aren’t really useful for anything but seeing how alike and different our tastes are. And we follow the golden rule: What goes on at wine club, stays at wine club!

Sangiovese and Super Tuscans

Not many American wine consumers know the Sangiovese grape well, yet so many of us (yes, myself included) are very familiar with Super Tuscan red wine blends. So what’s a Super Tuscan? Let’s start with some history about Italian wine. For a long time period, consumers across the world thought Italian wine was the cheap stuff to serve with spaghetti and meatballs on Tuesday night, while French wines should be saved for special occasions. In order to change that perception Italian vintners knew, starting in the 1980′s that they would have to improve quality. To do that, they brought in modern winemaking techniques (french wineries would benefit from this to this day) and started blending their native grape with other more well known varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon. The Cab helped the Sangiovese to be thicker and fuller, more in line with what consumers expect from expensive, world class wines.

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