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Types of Sparkling Wine: Bubbling Goodness
It’s a hot, sunny afternoon and you can’t decide if you should pop open that apple Cider you bought last night or have that Antiguas Reservas Chardonnay that was delivered by us today… You wanna drink both but is physically impossible. Well… What if I told you that you can have BOTH in a drink? Introducing the best of both worlds - sparkling wines! Speaking of bubbly… How does a wine pretend to look like soda but still taste like wine? Sparkling wines go through two fermentation processes & it’s the second one that gives it its bubbly character. This...
Debunking Wine Awards - Do they even mean anything?
Take a memory trip down the wine section of the supermarket and one thing you would be sure to notice is the stunning number of awards donned on each wine bottle. Ranging from international accolades such as “International Wine Challenge” and “Sommelier Wine Awards” to mere recommendations by “WineNZ Magazine”, how are you supposed to tell one Shiraz apart from another? To make matters even more confusing, you have wine critics who came up with their own 100-point scores (ahem, Robert Parker…) which has greater influence than some of the International Awards out there. What does this mean to an...
