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Burgundy wine (French: Bourgogne or vin de Bourgogne) is wine [...]
Investments In Wine
Investment wine, like gold bullion, rare coins, fine [...]
The Practice of Wine Tasting
Wine tasting (often, in wine circles, simply tasting) [...]
The Most Important Wine Consideration
Storage is an important consideration for wine that [...]
Health Effects of Wine
Although excessive alcohol consumption has adverse health effects, [...]
Mutants and Clones of Pinot Noir
Pinot noir is almost certainly a very ancient [...]
Vintages in Winemaking
Vintage, in winemaking, is the process of picking grapes and [...]
Alternative Wine Closure
Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in [...]
Early Wines in the Americas
Alcoholic beverages were made by indigenous peoples of the Americas before the Age of Discovery. Indigenous peoples are known to have used maize, potatoes, quinua, pepper tree fruits and strawberries to make alcoholic beverages. Despite the existence of species of the vitis genus (to which Vitis vinifera belongs) in Venezuela, Colombia, Central America and Mexico indigenous peoples did not ferment these species and therefore did not make wine.