Month: March 2021

Get 50% OFF your first 6-bottle box: https://bit.ly/BCBabish. Bright Cellars is the monthly wine club that matches you with wine that you’ll love. Get started by taking the taste palate quiz to see your personalized matches. This week on Basics, I’m making sure you know how to master a simple yet delicious pan sauce. Recipe:
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How to Taste Wine. Part of the series: Perfect Pours. Sommelier Jordan Salcito explains how to taste wine like a pro, first smelling the wine to identify its characteristics and descriptors, then tasting it and noting not only the flavors, but also how the wine feels in her mouth.
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It’s time to know everything you need when popping cork on the bubbly. The greatest drink for marking a celebration is Champagne – a classic – but even being a popular and well-known sparkling wine, there are a lot of questions about Champagne. Should you pair a sweet Champagne with the fantastic meal you’ve prepared
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Bordeaux is the most famous and highly coveted wine blend and region in the world. Like with many wines, there’s a lot to learn, so in this video we will cover the basics of the Bordeaux region and its wines. We will talk about left and right banks of the Bordeaux region and their different
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It gets a little boring in wine country in winter … watch this PSY Oppa Gangnam Style song parody music video with wine country style by Jordan Winery. Scroll down for credits. Thanks for making our 40th anniversary in 2012 such a special year. Cheers! Follow us: Jordan Winery Blog Homepage Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jordanwinery Twitter: http://twitter.com/jordanwinery
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Updated: March 18, 3 p.m. Napa Valley’s Duckhorn Vineyards became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange today when it began offering 20 million shares of common stock at an initial asking price of $15 a share. It opened at $18.60 this morning. Its trading symbol is NAPA. Duckhorn’s IPO makes it the
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When you’re tasting Italian Primitivo, it might be surprising to find out that it comes from the same grape as Zinfandel: a favorite in California. It might be even crazier to find out that both of these grapes were originally called Tribidrag in their homeland of Croatia. So what’s in a name? With today’s tasting
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Learn more: https://www.vikingrivercruises.com/cruise-destinations/europe/countries/france/index.html Bordeaux, France is home to the world’s most prized wines. Learn about its many different regions and appellations with Karine Hagen of Viking. © Viking River Cruises (Bermuda) Ltd. 2013. All rights reserved.
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How do you plan when you don’t know? That’s what the nation’s top wine charity auctions are grappling with in an uncertain 2021. But experts are optimistic about the months ahead following a tough year of cancellations and postponements and new virtual strategies. Nationwide vaccinations are part of what’s driving that outlook. But while we
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One year after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. government has enacted the first federal aid targeted directly at one of the most heavily damaged American economic sectors: the restaurant industry. And it could help impacted wineries, as well. The American Rescue Plan (ARP), passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden
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PRIORAT is extreme. With an intense Mediterranean sun, steep roman-cut terraces and unforgiving dark slate soils known as llicorella, everything about this region is challenging. The primary varietals are the indigenous Garnacha and Cariñena. These wines are practically heroic: intensely proud and concentrated in every way with stewed inky fruit and ripping tannins. Have you
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Though Burgundy has around 700 individually titled vineyards, the official number of appellations is 84. This video will guide you through all the Burgundy appellations from the regional level to the Grand Cru. Purchase The Burgundy Explorer Selection here and unlock the full Wine Tasting Video with Ronan Sayburn MS : https://www.elicite.com/product/the-burgundy-explorer-selection Subscribe to our
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Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. In order to keep a close relationship with our customers around the globe, we’ve organised the first round of three virtual seminars held by Aurelio Montes father and son from our winery, where they presented ‘Montes’ Cabernet Sauvignon’, including 4 wines made with this grape variety. These seminars were
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