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…

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…

Stella Rosato Wine

Spring is approaching and people are looking for some lighter food and wine to match traditional meals. Now it’s the right time to drink something sparkling eating vegetables and fruit. Among Stella Rosa Wine products it’s possible to find many…

Muscadine wine

Is muscadine wine the new champagne? It just seems so. This is what has been happening lately. As soon as Jay Z, the partner of Beyoncé, decided to boycott the French wine choosing muscadine, the rap world has gone mad…

From Bisanzio wine to the Chianti wine: a journey through time!  

When you think of red Tuscan wine your mind immediately goes to the Chianti area. However if you just go south two hundred miles from that zone, you discover something you would have never imagined. We are referring to Montepulciano…

Sweet red wines

History tells us that the red sweet wines were precious and  tasted only during some special religious worship and practices from the highest echelons of power, so by kings and emperors. The sweet wine has supporters and detractors, but today we…