bottling

I don't know for a fact whether or not the nutritional info would change over time, but I would imagine it would. You can see as a wine ages that the bottle actually loses volume (check a current release wine next to a...

Definitely head to Santa Barbara, and try some winebars and eating in the town ... zins. Their regional bottlings at the lower end of the price range are easily approachable, but their single-vineyard zins can be special....

Well you got me going, Greg, so I went back and looked at my wine purchases over the past year. My online/mailorder purchases were exactly 24 cases. 12 from US producers and 12 from those in the rest of the wine world....

dmcker - Yes, I am half Japanese and half Korean. How lucky of you to be in Tokyo! I have yet to venture to my "motherland" haha. I bet you are enjoying lots of good sake, another favorite of mine. My family is actually...

Here is a twist on this discussion.... As long as we are talking about nutritional content and "FDA 'requirements'", would they need to put "expiration dates" on the bottle as well? Which brings me to a related question...

Are there ratings for Best Buys on large (1.5L) bottles?

If I remember right, the reasoning behind not having that information is due to the gov't requiring that alcoholic beverages make no health claims of any sort in their labeling. This goes back to the snake oil salesmen of...

Here's another article on the subject. http://palatepress.com/2009/09/nutrition-facts%E2%80%A6coming-to-a-wine-bottle-near-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1211 So TTB is going to be dipping their oar in wine descriptions now?...

This year I got the opportunity to participate in a winery employee project. Me and a few of other employees at Loxton Cellars got half a ton of Syrah grapes to make our own wine from. We’ll do all the work and we’ll...

Not sure what you mean by a moot point, but am curious why it might be necessary. Anybody doing much chaptalization might be scared (or that place down in Florida that does 'Pure Turkey' wine and lists food coloring as an...

I purchased a wine to cellar from the year my first son got married in 2005, and am looking to give it to them for their 5 year anniversary. My other son got married in 2007, and I would like to do the same.
Do you have any recomendations for a wine to cellar for 5 years from the 2007 vintage? Also, anyrecomendations for 10 year wines from 2005 and 2007?
Thanks,
Mark