• Wine knowledge

    Sparkling Saturday

    As you all know from my previous Bubbles post, I like sparkling wine – champagne, prosecco, cava, European, American, if it is at all decent I’ll drink it but I’ve…

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    Terroir: NYC Wine Bar

    Terroir means, simply, relating to the earth. In wine production it means how a particular vineyard site affects the resulting wine. Some people believe in terroir and some don’t. What…

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    Wine studies

    I started to “study” wine when we lived in London and I first attended a WSET – Wine and Spirits Education Trust class. It was level 1 and pretty basic…

  • Wine knowledge

    Bubbles

    Happy 2018 everyone! Did you have some sort of bubbles to celebrate the New Year? Did you have champagne, you know the actual French stuff from the Champagne region of…