Wine Tasting Tips

Wine Tasting Tips

While we are definitely not wine experts yet (but we are learning more every day) we have done a fair amount of wine tasting. This means that we’ve brought a ...

Extend the freshness of your opened bottle of wine

Extend the freshness of your opened bottle of wine

After opening up a bottle of wine and letting it breathe a little, you can appreciate all the fragrant aromas and hopefully a pallet to match. But if you want ...

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Tasting Great Malibu Wine at LearnAboutWine.com’s Big BU Event – Part 1

This weekend we had the chance to attend our first LearnAboutWine.com event and had an absolute blast. The event was called, “The Big BU” and featured wines from all over ...

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Weekly Wine News Updates – May 18th, 2012

Hello and welcome to Blog About Wine’s weekly wine news update. Every week we scour the web in search of some of the best stories in the wine world and deliver them to our readers around the world. So sit back, relax, pour yourself a nice glass of wine and read some of the latest [...]

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Photo Highlights From Our Sonoma Wine Tasting Adventures

We had an absolutely incredible time wine tasting in Sonoma this weekend. This week we are putting-together all of our tasting notes, photos, videos, and most importantly reviews of all the wineries we visited. These will be coming-out through a series of posts, but while we’re putting this together we thought it would be fun [...]

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Weekly Wine Update – May 12th, 2012

Hello fellow wine-lovers and welcome to another weekly wine update here on BlogAboutWine. As usual a lot has happened in the wine world this week and we’re excited to bring you some of the latest news. This weekend we are embarking on a wine adventure ourselves in Sonoma. If you’d like to know more about [...]

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Our Unofficial Sonoma Wine Tasting Itinerary

We are just days away from making our way up north and exploring what Sonoma’s diverse wine region. Initially we had planned on hitting some of the bigger, more well-known wineries but after getting some great advice from one of our readers we are now looking to take the road less traveled. While we might [...]

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Sonoma Wine Country Here We Come! Sonoma Wine Country 101

We have been wine tasting in Southern California for about four years now with an uncountable number of trips to Santa Barbara, Paso Robles, and Temecula. Of course as wine lovers we’ve also spent plenty of time in Napa but for some reason Sonoma is always left off the list. Well we’ve decided that it [...]

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Want Your Wine Featured At Our Wine Wedding?

That’s right, our wine wedding is just around the corner (August 18th to be exact) and we couldn’t be more excited. For those who haven’t been following, we started our search for a wedding venue in beautiful Santa Barbara wine country. Due to the complexity of getting everyone to Santa Barbara and venues closing a [...]

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Weekly Wine News Update –

Hello and welcome to the weekly wine update here on BlogAboutWine.com! It’s been a busy week in the wine world and just like every other week we are bringing you the top wine news to keep you in the know. So pour a glass of your favorite wine, sit back, relax, and enjoy the top [...]

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Wine Wedding Update – We Picked The Venue!

If you have been following along with our adventures then you know we are getting married, and have had our hearts set on a winery. We began our search in Santa Barbara wine country where we had narrowed it down to a few good options. Still there were a few issues we had never thought [...]

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Wine News Update – US Wine Prices Are Going Up

Hello everyone and welcome to another Wine News Update here on Blog About Wine! We have had an incredibly busy month so far with eight days spend in Australia and New Zealand, of course enjoying some incredible wine! Now that we’re back state-side we are getting back-into the pulse of the wine world and as [...]

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Another reason to enjoy a glass of red wine: Piceatannol helps block fat cell formation

We are all familiar with the health benefits of red wine for preventing heart disease, but a recent study shed some light on an additional health benefit. Red grapes and red wine contain a compound called piceatannol, and  a laboratory at Purdue University has recently shown that it can slow or completely inhibit the maturation [...]

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