17 Cold Appetizers For White Wine Tasting

What Appetizers Pair Well with White Wine? The best cold appetizers for your white wine tasting will deliver fat and salt. Fat softens wine’s acid and salt will make your wine seem fruitier. High acid foods pair well with high acid white wines, like vinegar dressings and Sauvignon Blanc. The two complement each other. Helpful […]

What Wine Tastes Like Fruit? 10 Great Options

I love fruity wines. Pungent, strong, unabashed fruity powerhouses. Five delicious, fruity white wines are Moscato d’Asti, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Torrontes, and Riesling. Five fruity red wines are Lambrusco, Pinot Noir, Grenache, Beaujolais Nouveau, and Sangiovese (Chianti). Fruity aromas come from the grape and winemaking process, making some wines fruitier than others. Here’s what you […]

How Do You Know When White Wine Has Gone Bad? 3 Easy Steps

Inside each white wine bottle, the wine’s in a state of pause somewhere between grape juice and vinegar. But how do you know if it’s gone bad? All white wines will eventually go bad. Here are three quick steps to tell if your wine is bad: 1) look at it. A burnt yellow, brownish, or […]

What Is a Good Sweet Wine for Beginners?

New wine drinkers figure out pretty quickly that the liquid in their wine glass doesn’t taste anything like grape juice.  Good sweet wines for beginners include: Moscato d’Asti, White Zinfandel, Cabernet d’Anjou, off-dry Riesling, Vin Doux Naturel, Demi-Sec and Doux Champagne, Port, and Sauternes. Wines come in a range of sweetness levels, so you have […]

What’s the Bitter Taste After Wine?

It’s an unpleasant surprise to sniff a rich bouquet of fruits in your glass of wine and take a confident sip that delivers an intensive burst of flavor, only to have a nasty bitterness settle in your mouth. What’s going on? Why’s your wine bitter? If you taste bitterness after you swallow a sip of […]