Articles about wine, wine drinking and buying the best wine

Information and help when picking the right wine for you.

Interesting snippets of info about wine -

The colour of wine is decided by the presence or absence of the grape skin during fermentation

Cooking with wine

Duty Free Wine -

Drinking Advice sites - where you get help for drinking problems

Mulled wine - what do you do to wine to mull it?

Vegan and Vegetarian wines - why are some wines not suitable for vegetarians.

Wine glossary

Books on investing in wine

Wine Recipes

Wine notes - what to write down when you're tasting a wine

Red and White grapes which make wine

How to serve wine

Review of Chateau Ducla - Bordeaux Superieur 2004

Corked wine is due to the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA) which gives it a mouldy wet dog smell. It can in theory be removed by soaking the wine in polyethylene. The TCA sticks to the polyethylene and the wine can be poured out TCA free!