21 Winning Wine Tasting Food Ideas For Your Next Event

Looking for food ideas for your next wine tasting? The best foods for wine tasting have protein, salt, and fat. These elements help keep your palate fresh while you sip. Great foods to eat with wine tasting include olives, charcuterie, cheeses, and even french fries.  Helpful Tip: If you’re doing a red wine tasting specifically, […]

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’s Orange Wine

Do you have a bottle of orange wine in front of you? If so, I hope you’ll savor every sip, because these are special bottles.  Orange wines are made from white grapes that ferment on the skins. This turns the wine an amber (orange) color. It also gives the wine more body and tannin than […]

What’s Vermentino? Everything You Wanted to Know About Vermentino Wine

Vermentino (pronounced vur-men-tee-no) I recently enjoyed a Vermentino as an afternoon aperitif ahead of a large family meal. Our little bottle of Vermentino hailed from Napa, of all places, which was unexpected. Vermentino, a thin-skinned Italian white grape, is grown in Sardinia, Liguria, Corsica, and Provence (known as Rolle). It shares a high-acid style with […]