| Wine Q&A |
| What foods should you avoid when drinking wine? How do you clean up a red wine stain? Find the answers to all of your wine questions here. |
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What’s the Best Picnic Wine?
Wine Club panelist Maureen Petrosky votes for Riesling. |
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Wine and Halloween Candy
What wines go well with Halloween candy? |
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How to Chill Wine Quickly
If you want to chill a bottle of white or
rosé wine fast, set it in a deep bucket with
plenty of ice and a handful of kosher salt, as
you would for homemade ice cream. |
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What Can the Cork Tell Me?
How the cork looks can tell you a lot about how the wine was stored. |
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What is Barrel Tasting?
Barrel tasting is a method for wine makers to check the progress of a wine that hasn't been put into bottles yet. |
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How High Should I Fill My Wine Glass?
Half full is best-and never more than two-thirds full. |
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What’s the Best Knife for Cheese?
While cute-as-a-button cheese spreaders adorned with decorative handles make for Martha-like displays, the truth is that when serving cheese, common cutlery will do. |
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What's the Best Wine to Use for Mulled Wine?
While it's true that mulled wine was once an Old World trick for dressing up good wine that had turned bad, we don't suggest you use a bottle of plonk. |
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Why Are Some Wines Climbing in Alcohol Content?
In recent years, you might have noticed that some wines that were previously 12 percent alcohol are now weighing in at 14 to 16.5 percent. What's going on? |
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How Do I Describe Wine?
Forget the raspberries; never mind the cloves. Fortunately, wine compares handily to a great variety of evocative nonfood things in the world. |
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How Do I Set My Table with Multiple Wine Glasses?
Not only is it enjoyable to pair different wines with different courses, but some guests prefer red or white exclusively, and will appreciate a choice. |
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What’s the Deal with Napa Cabbage?
No, it doesn't have wine flowing through its crinkly veins! Rather, the name of this lovely veggie is likely linked to the Japanese word "nappa." |
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What Does Tapas Mean?
You would be forgiven if you thought that "tapas" literally means "fascinating little bites of this and that," because that's the general experience of this Spanish way of eating. |
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How Do I Treat Red Wine Stains?
Red wine goes with so many things-except your favorite blouse. For drops and dribbles here and there, keep a bottle of Wine Away on hand. |
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How Do I Read Wine Labels?
One of the most eye-opening aspects of getting to know wine is understanding how they are labeled, but it can be a challenge at first. After all, some wines are labeled by grape and others are labeled by place. |
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Wood in My Wine?
At first the thought of wood and wine may sound off-putting, yet many of the things we adore about wine is due to time spent aging in wooden barrels. |
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