Should red wine only be served with red or dark meats and white wine with white meat, or doesn’t it really matter? Personally I’m not bothered, I’ll eat and drink whatever is on offer. However there may be a scientific basis for not accompanying fish courses with red wines as the higher iron levels in [...]

Dogs are much like wine writes Gene Weingarten, in that they get better as they get older.
But it is not until a dog gets old that his most important virtues ripen and coalesce. Old dogs can be cloudy-eyed and grouchy, gray of muzzle, graceless of gait, odd of habit, hard of hearing, pimply, wheezy, lazy, [...]

Storing wine in cartons rather than bottles may improve the flavour of some varieties which can be prone to taste contamination during the fermentation process.
Admittedly, serving wine from a carton lacks the aesthetic appeal of a bottle, and cartons have also been criticised for allowing flavour-destroying oxygen to seep in during storage. A new study, [...]

Wine description terms illustrated, as taken from The Illustrated Winespeak, Ronald Searle’s Wicked World of Winetasting, by Ronald Searle.
(Thanks Coffee Girl)

Foodies rejoice! Taste of Sydney is on in Sydney’s Centennial Park until this Sunday afternoon, 15 March.
Rub shoulders with award winning chefs and like minded foodies as you explore the best food and drink that Sydney has to offer. Expect to be entertained and indulged in the Taste Wine Experience, or James Squire Beer Masterclass, [...]

A collection of fantastically designed wine labels (and even bottles), and just in time for the weekend.

Sherry, or Vino de Jerez to use its original Spanish name, will soon be known as Apera, as part of an agreement between Australia and the EU that requires fortified wines made to the same formula, but produced outside the “Sherry Triangle”, a region in the Spanish province Anadalucia, to go by another name.
Would you [...]

A study in wine label design… for anyone paying attention to a such detail on a day like today!

The braille wine label by Lazarus Wine… useful and beautiful at the same time.

Trying to critique a wine but but can’t find the right words? Beetroot perhaps? You need Carl Tashian’s Wine Flavor Visualization:
What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine.