Exploring Wine: Buying, Making and Tasting Great Wine

You'll discover everything about wine here, from traditional grape varieties to exciting alternatives like berry and dandelion wines, plus expert guidance on cooking, serving, and enjoying wines from every corner of the world. Exploring Wine is here to help.

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First it is important to debunk a myth: English Wine is not a poor and unworthy wine unfit for a Frenchman to wash the soles of his boots with! 'British Wine...

How is Wine Made?

There are many variations on the basic wine making technique although essentially the production of wine can be broken down into a few main stages. For infor...

What Defines a Wine?

Wine is something so prevalent throughout society in Western Europe (and indeed even in the U.K. where we are often lambasted for our lack of Wine savvy) tha...

Wine: A Changing Industry

As with life, there is only one thing you can be certain of with regards to the wine industry: Change. There are those that bemoan that changes to the wine i...

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Using Wine in Punch or Cocktails

For centuries the centrepiece of many a stylish European party would have been a bowl of delicious fruit punch. Made with the wine of the country and lusciou...

Which Wines for a Summer BBQ?

The story of cooking meat slowly over fire – or in a fire pit – is almost as old as civilisation itself, but it’s a practice that faded in popularity i...

The Right Wine for Christmas Dinner

You’ve got enough to worry about at Christmas without the added stress of what wine to drink with dinner so our first advice is: relax! Our next piece of a...

How to Make Sparkling Wine

Over 300 million bottles of champagne and many more million bottles of sparkling wine are drunk every year. That’s an awful lot of bubbly – and even more...

White Wine Making

White wine making is an art that has been developed over time. A wide range of white wine can be made encompassing all from the most delicately flavoured to...

Making Red Wine

Making red wine is an ancient craft. Although the wine making equipment may have changed and scientific knowledge increased, the basic steps have remained th...

History of Wine-Making in the British Isles

If we’re looking at wine-making in the British Isles, the first important point to make is that we’re not talking about British wine! British wine is the...

Wines From Around the World: Romania

Romania is one of the largest wine producers in Europe, and with a history of viniculture that goes back 6,000 years, it’s also one of the oldest. The Hist...

Wines From Around the World: Canada

For most people thinking about wine, Canada isn’t top of the list of wine-producing countries. But the fact is that Canada has a thriving wine industry wit...

Wines From Around the World: Lazio

Lazio, centered around the middle of Italy is a region split between two worlds – the Italy of the North, a prosperous industrial area bordered by the alps...

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