Whether red or white, sweet or dry, full-bodied or light, wine requires specific serving procedures in order to tap into the full potential that it has to offer. Understanding the different types of glassware and how they complement your wine will help amplify your overall wine drinking experience! Welcome to Wine Glasses 101. Parts of…
With the holidays fast approaching, don’t get stuck without beverages for your guests. This Holiday Pomegranate Punch from Torani® is easy, delicious, and makes enough to feed your crowd. And in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, this punch is a gorgeous pink color! Win-win-win-win! Ingredients 1 ½ cups Torani® Pomegranate Syrup ¾ cup…
Change has been edging in on the food industry for quite some time as consumers are making it more apparent that they wish to buy food locally, or humanely produced, or hand crafted, or any combination of one or more of these attributes. It should be no surprise, then, that wine connoisseurs are searching for…
Since its inception, wine has been a dietary staple and has even been “accidentally” paired with foods. For example, heavy red wines of Greece were often served with lamb dishes that were a staple of the region. In Britain there is some evidence of a more purposeful matching of wines. Wine merchants were known to…
So after learning the basics of wine-tasting, you should have some ideas as to how to choose a wine that you really love to drink. Now it’s time to buy the right glasses—because yes, glassware is deemed the most important tool in the enjoyment of drinking wine. It boosts the appeal of the wine you…
The final phase in evaluating wine is to assess its taste and finish. Some of the things you will be looking for are whether or not the wine is balanced and harmonious, its complexity, and how the wine finishes after you are done tasting it. If you understand how taste buds work, you will better…
A wine’s smell or overall aroma is also called the “nose” of the wine, and this “nose” is the second stage in wine tasting, after evaluating by sight. The nose is a fascinating organ, capable of differentiating between thousands of unique scents. This makes it a great tool in evaluating wine, because it is able…
Without even taking a sniff or sip of wine, we can get an overall idea about what we are about to enjoy. The first step in the tasting process is to look at the wine in our glass in order to evaluate its appearance. The color can give you hints about the approximate age, what…
Food halls are the latest culinary movement spreading across the United States. In a sense, food halls take us back to a time before there were supermarkets, before there were convenience stores and drive-thrus, back to a time when locally sourced, artisanally crafted was the prime way to buy and consume. So what, you may…
At its most basic, wine can be described as the “juice from fermented grapes…and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.” But the definition doesn’t do well to describe the many complexities of a tantalizing wine, nor the rich history of the origin of wine-making. Evidence of early wine-making reaches back to…