Sangria is a tasty drink and is surprising easy to make. You’ll need to gather a few ingredients including your favorite bottle of red wine. Some of your options are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Rioja reds, or Zinfandel. Aside from the bottle of wine, you will need the following: 1 Lemon cut into wedges 1 Orange [...]

Wine does not contain fat! But it does contain calories which may cause you to put on some weight. Will 2 glasses a night make you fat?? Probably not…but if you do not get much exercise and have typically been the type of person who puts on weight easily, you might gain weight. If you [...]

There are many different kinds of grapes that create the various types of wine. Here is a list of some of the more popular wine grapes and the wines they create. Merlot Grapes: The grapes used to make Merlot wine typically have flavors of honey, cherry, and often mint. These grapes are grown in France, [...]

Wine expires quickly if opened, although there are ways to prevent it from expiring for a little while. The serious wine drinkers claim that wine expires after a day and a bottle should be finished the same day that it is opened. But for most of us, we don’t want to drink an entire bottle in one [...]

Many people experience headaches the next morning only after drinking a little bit of wine the night before. So why does wine cause these headaches? Many people believe that winemakers are using to many sulphites in the wine and that leads to headaches. What exactly are sulphites? Sulphites are added to wine to protect the wine from oxidation [...]

To keep a bottle of wine fresh after you open it, you should immediately keep it cool and put the cork back in. Even between glasses, the wine should be recorked and kept cool. This will slow down the oxidation of the wine and can possibly keep the wine good for a day or two. [...]

Wine spoils quickly, although there are ways to keep it fresh for a little while. The serious wine drinkers like to finish the bottle the same day the wine is opened because it will start to taste different even only after 1 day of being opened. After wine is exposed to the air, it will [...]

The answer is…Yes. Wine does freeze. Wine is a water based solution and even contains various solutes like ethanol. To freeze alocohol you will have drop the temperature well below the freezing point of water (32 F) typically around 20ish degrees F. The more alcohol in beer, wine, and liquor, the longer it will take to [...]

Although it not clear when wine was first invented, many believe that wine was probably first made in the stone age. Juice and graph residue were left in a indentation in a rock and then consumed before turning sour. Oldest Wine Bottle This wine was found in a vineyard in Germany. Researchers believe it was from about 325 A.D. [...]

Many people are wondering is wine vegan? Well the answer to that question may come as a surprise to all of you…Wine is NOT vegan! Here why it’s not vegan: Wine is clarified after it is fermented and the ingredients that are often used in this process are not vegan. Here are some of the [...]