Wine is probably the best social drink man has ever known. It comes in hoards of varieties and peculiarly, the classification is generally based on the area in which wine is grown. The classification is required because the number of types is just so mind boggling that the entire industry would be disarrayed if a [...]

If you are looking for fine French wine and food, consider the Loire Valley region of central France. You may find a bargain, and I hope that you’ll have fun on this fact-filled wine education tour in which we review a white Chenin Blanc from Anjou-Saumur Touraine in the central part of the region.
Among France’s [...]

This will be three inexpensive Italian wines in a row that we have reviewed. First was a rose, then a red, so why not a white? Umbria is in central Italy. This wine comes from Orvieto, a town near the Latium border and not that far from the Tuscan border. I bet that you can [...]

Would you believe that almost half of Sicily’s huge wine production is made from white grapes? Unfortunately not many of these wines are available in North America, at least not yet. So I have suggested fine or sometimes fair to middling white wines that come from other regions of Italy. All the more reason to [...]

White wine is the lighter, simpler opposite number of red wine, though it is no less dignified as a drink. White wine is actually straw-like in colour, as a result of the colours of the grapes from which they are fermented, and if those grapes are purplish, by removing the outer coverings prior to fermentation. [...]

Italy produces many fine wines. We have reviewed approximately two dozen fine Italian wines, coming from eighteen and soon nineteen of the twenty regions of Italy. Sicily is Italy’s top wine region both in terms of acreage devoted to the wine grape, a whopping third of a million acres, and total production, over two hundred [...]

Wines are of many types. Red wine is a type of wine which is extracted from red, dark purple or blue colored grapes. This wine is red in color. Red wine is produced by fermenting grape juice. The red color of the wine is due to the tannins present in the wine which is a [...]