Search Results for 'Flavor'

UC Davis Study Testing Wine Toppers Ability To Save Flavor

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – All wine isn’t created equal, and neither are all wine toppers. This is what a new UC Davis study wants to prove. Most people assume corks are better than synthetic, and both are better than a screw top; b [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Wines Targeting Women Are Long on Legs, Short on Flavor

Freud struggled to find an answer to the question “What does a woman want?” Ninety-odd years later, some in the wine industry think they know. According to the new “girly-wine” brand marketers, we want to be skinny [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Wine Buys for Thanksgiving: Finding right balance for strong...

As if you didn't have enough to think about as Thanksgiving approaches, don't forget the wines that will accompany this most bountiful of holiday meals. All sorts of spicy, fruity and savory flavors will be wafting from the kitche [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

The flavor of wine

I recently received an email from Rebecca, a reader in Washington, who wanted to know the answer to a seemingly simple question; "Who put the cherry in my wine?" What Rebecca was really asking was, why doesn't wine taste [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Big Flavors Need Big Wines

Loud" flavors -- hot, spicy and/or acidic -- can be tricky to pair with wine. There's no faster way to obliterate the nuances of a wine than to serve it with a dish whose flavors will jump out and make those subtleties disappear. Still [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Bad weather left grapes few but flavorful

Fans of North Carolina wines may have something special to taste this summer: North Carolina wines. It turns out the grapes that survived the one-two punch of freeze and drought in 2007 are delivering a sublime sequel to a bitter year. Wi [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2008 | Comments : 0

Tempranillo Wines (Taste by their wide range of flavors)

This grape in particular got named after its precocious bloom, whose roots lie possibly in the Spanish word “Temprano”, meaning early. Thus widely employed in Spain, bringing forth wines of dazzling colors yet suitable f [...]