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Pairing classic Christmas dishes with the right wines. A brief guide to the sea of flavors!Christmas! The season of joy, laughter and good friends. But it is also a time when food and wine pairings take place.As families and friends gather around the..

We were taught to only pair meat with red wine. Let's forgive them!Some will talk about stereotypes, others about "common sense", others simply don't drink red wine because it annoys them, while there are also those who don't mind pouring white wine ..

The right glassware and their importance in wine: Necessity or show-off?In a world where size and shape matters, glassware should be in the top of this list.It is not a luxury, it is not a show-off, it is simply wine culture to seek the maximum possi..

Barrel and oak importance in wine: Necessity or exaggeration?Looking back on the writer's early days as a budding wine lover, I remember the atmosphere in the discussions and writing at the time, promoting the use of casks in wine as a necessity to u..

How Do I Describe a Wine?Wine magazines, blogs, publications, and other sources many times use terms and sayings … incomprehensible to the uninformed. What do all these exotic terms really mean? If I was crazy about a wine, how would I describe it to..

Decanting: Essential or just a show-off?Most of us who read these lines have witnessed, in some fine restaurant, the sommelier decanting a wine with surgical precision and religious reverence wine into a stylish crystal decanter. Do we really need th..

Images of joy, celebration and rewarding achievements! Yet, this is the first image that marketing has given us about sparkling wines. Is that it? Or do these wines have the right to boast about their complex and unique characteristics, as well as gr..

Let's make a beautiful picture together: this amazing bottle, which you have been planning to open for so long, calculating the right time and occasion, either with our best friends or even on a first date, has arrived. You remove the cork, serve it ..

Greek rosé wine is, without a doubt, a new entry in the game; and is no longer regarded only as a seasonal thing. The good news is that the level of quality is definitely upgraded, with some winemakers producing up to three different types of rosés. ..