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Wine education, tips and insights to help you better understand and enjoy what’s in your glass.
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Wine Education / Wine Tips / Wine Culture / Behind the Bottle
Why Does This Wine Suck?
In this post, you’ll learn why sometimes that bottle you’ve selected just isn’t any good. There are a few reasons why your bottle sucked, ranging from it being corked to cooked to prematurely oxidized. The telltale signs of all of these unfortunate events are easy to spot once you know what you’re looking for—or smelling!
You’re No Dummie, or How to Stay Afloat in an Ocean of Wine
Perhaps the subtitle should be, “After all, you should have far better things to do with your time than rigorously study wine.” But at the same time, people are drinking wine like never before. We are perhaps a generation or two from being as comfortable with wine as an everyday beverage as our European brethren are, but the day will come. After all, the United States is the world’s No. 1 consumer at 33 million hectoliters annually. That’s about 871,000,000 gallons!