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Most expensive wines in auction

Sometimes a very good red wine doesn’t vanish in a glass but it changes into a real value for the collector’s world. As a matter of fact, auction houses like Sotheby’s or Christie’s have a particular sector devoted to the…

Best Red Wines for Cooking

Best cooking wine. You could think you don’t need a good wine for cooking. But it isn’t true at all. The great chefs use the best ingredients in their recipes. Why shouldn’t you? We have to consider a point: good…

Best Red Cheap Tuscan Wines

The ocean of red Italian wines has no boundaries. In fact, there are excellent and ordinary wines, very expensive and cheap ones. How could you recognize them? Also, how can you decide which is the best red wine to drink?…

Good cheap wines

Cheap doesn’t mean necessarily undrinkable. No doubt you can be rarely disappointed by a 20 dollars and plus bottle of wine, but you may pay a little less for many good wines too. You don’t need to split wine into…

Tuscan wine colors, Chianti wine

White, red, rosé.. Tuscan wine color isn’t just one. By tradition it seems Tuscan wine has to be red. But it isn’t always true. Among Tuscan wines there are some excellent white, as Moscadello di Montalcino, Ansonica, Vernaccia di San…

Italian wine types

Can you believe in Italy there are 511 different grape varieties cultivated in almost all the twenty regions? Just guess, in the 2010 there were 440. The Italian registry of grape varieties continues to recognize wine grapes as soon as…

Italian Wine Regions: A Journey from the Rolling Hills of Tuscany to the Sparkling Waters of Sicily

Italy, a country synonymous with the art of winemaking, presents a diverse palette of regions, each boasting its own signature wines. From the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany to the historic vineyards of Veneto, the landscape of Italian wine is as…

How to make wine

To make wine you need grapes. But It’s not enough. And this it’s not a joke, of course. Someone says to produce wine like Chianti at home takes thirteen steps. People have been making it for thousands of years not…

Calories in wine

Calories in a bottle of red wine Can you gain weight just drinking wine? It depends. It’s important to know that wine contains calories as every other drink and food. According to the Usda (U.S. Department of Agriculture) calories in…