Wine Types

Sparkling wine, Champagne, the wines most called upon for wedding and New Year’s Eve toasts, and other festive occasions are loved by many, but often misunderstood.   Champagne is the name by which most Sparkling Wines are referred, and it is used to pretty much cover the gamut of Sparkling Wine. Well, Champagne is Sparkling [...]

Ice wine is a dessert wine – a sweet wine, as the majority of dessert wines are – made from grapes frozen on their vine in their natural environment. Ice wines are difficult to make as the grapes require precise cooperation from the weather immediately following the harvesting season for other wine grapes. Therefore, most successfully [...]

The United States Department of Agriculture created the National Organic Program (NOP) to regulate products that are sold using the term “organic” in their labeling, and that includes organic wine. Wine made from organic grapes can be described as wine made from grapes grown in accordance with the standards of organic farming, as set by [...]

 Wine types are based on the type of grape used in the winemaking process, although wine labels sometime refer to the region in which the grape was grown rather than the grape itself.   France is big on naming their wines after the grape growing region, and wine drinkers don’t much care which grapes are [...]