When it comes to learning about wine, there is a plenty of wine books out there to choose from.
If you are a beginner who is fascinated about wine and want to learn about it, or maybe you just want to feel more confident when choosing wine for your next barbeque or a romantic dinner, this blog post is for you. I selected 5 wine books that will help you to choose wine with confidence and to drink with joy.
Ontario is Canada’s biggest wine-production area. It’s considered a relatively new wine region, although vines have been planted here over a hundred years ago. Here is a wrap-up of what I’ve learned about Canadian wine during my recent trip to Toronto.
Cleopatra – the last pharaoh and one of the most powerful rulers of Egypt, a debauched temptress and a woman of superior intellect. It turned out that she was also a huge wine lover along with Marc Antony, a Roman general and her lover, who by the way, was declared the New Dionysus, a god of wine, happiness, and immortality.
There are people like us, typically smaller vineyards, who are willing to go the extra mile to farm in a more intimate way with the soil, in a way that is not always the most efficient. Yet a lot of vineyards are run by professional managers looking for the greatest efficiency, which often goes hand-in-hand with the use of herbicides and pesticides.
Organic, biodynamic, natural, green, eco-friendly, naked, sustainably-farmed… What’s the difference between all these terms and how does one understand what wine is good?
Wine is an agricultural product, and has an impact on the lives of people who produce and consume it, and on the environment – through pesticides, herbicides, excessive water and energy consumption which are all commonplace in conventional wine production.
