Tips and curiosities

What makes a good summer white wine ?  Something light, fresh with floral or citrus aromas, good fruit flavours and crisp acidity.   Today

To simplify how I evaluate an international wine I look for three key characteristics; balance, complexity and finish.   It takes a bit of

Its summer and time to fire up the barbie and choose barbecue wines. I love to barbecue and do so all year round. There

When travelling abroad do you feel uncomfortable when handed a wine list in a restaurant?  If yes, this is normal so don’t worry. It

It used to be that when tasting biodynamic wines my tasting notes were not complimentary as I found faults with the wines. The only

Austria, home Mozart, Strauss and Schubert, Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper is also the home of a grape variety

Wine Tasting, is it Hard Work? A friend asked me, “How was your day?”, I replied that I was exhausted having been tasting wines

What makes Champagne so special? It is the most prestigious sparkling wine in the world made only from grapes grown on the chalky soils

There are hundreds of grape varieties to make but the 4 Classic Red Grape Varieties of the World are: Cabernet Sauvignon Bordeaux surpasses all other wines,

Making it easier to choose a wine is very important at TheWinePlace.es. What do you need to know when choosing a wine? There is