If you are wondering why wine bottles have dimples in the bottom, we got the answer! There is no clear consensus as to why the dimple is there, but there are plenty of fascinating theories. Here you are the ones most plausible and most interesting. - The dimple makes it easier to hold a wine bottle. If you grab a wine bottle from the bottom, it’s no surprise that the dimple is present, acting as a spot to place your thumb while the rest of your fingers grab the base of the bottle. - The dimple allows the bottle to stand upright. Glassblowers used to create dimples...

Dear wine lovers, today we are going to talk about the wine glasses. As you probably know, each wine should be served in the appropriate kind of glass. But obviously, in order to respect the most meticulous serving rules, we should all have a glass collection of any kind and shape. So here you are the most common glasses that suits each kind of wine. The choice of the glass is important because the right shape enhances the different characteristics of the wine. General rules: - Coloured glasses are banished: the first step of tasting comes from the sight, and this is...

Of course, we are talking about sparkling wines. Charmat and Champenoise method are the two sparkling wine production processes that guarantee high quality sparkling wines. Charmat method was invented at the end of the XIX century by Federico Martinotti, director of the Enology Institute in Asti, who introduced the fermentation in large pressure-resistant stainless steel vats. Though the patent is given to the French Charmat, who gave life to the machinery the way we know it today. This method, also known as tank fermentation, is used to make most sparkling wines. The base wine is...

I guess that at least once in your life you have uncorked a bottle of wine and you felt like something wrong with it. Maybe you said: "It's corked!", and probably you just had to trash the bottle, since when a wine is corky, it is undrinkable. But let's try to find out what this unpleasant inconvenience is due to. We should start saying that, understanding if a wine is "corked" or not, depends much from the olfactory perception of each of us. A corked wine does not mean a wine that has particles of cork floating around in the glass, but itmeans that a...