The Essentials of Serving and Storing Wine

After you've selected just the right bottle of wine, you'll want to know the essentials of storing the wine before you consume it (whether short-term or long-term) and how to serve the wine. Some wines benefit from aeration and taste better at certain temperatures and even in specific glassware.

How to Uncork a Wine Bottle

Removing the cork from a wine bottle is the first challenge that faces you in your quest to enjoy wine. Uncorking a wine bottle is relatively simple once you get the hang of it. First you must remove the [more…]

How to Open a Bottle of Sparkling Wine

Opening a bottle of sparkling wine or Champagne is usually an exciting occasion. But the method of opening a bottle of sparkling wine or Champagne is a completely different technique than you’d use to [more…]

Which Wines Need Aerating?

The process of aerating wine — exposing it to air — is called breathing. Sometimes the aroma and flavor of a very young wine improves with aeration. But just pulling the cork out of the bottle and letting [more…]

Knowing Which Wine Glasses to Use

You can appreciate a wine’s aroma and flavor complexities much more out of a fine wine glass. Wine glasses come in all shapes and sizes. If you’re just drinking wine as refreshment with your meal, the [more…]

The Best Serving Temperatures for Wines

Serving wine at the ideal temperature is a vital factor in your enjoyment of wine. If you try tasting the same wine at different temperatures, you may find that you love it at one temperature and dislike [more…]

Entertaining with Wine at a Dinner Party

When hosting a dinner party, you probably serve more wines than you would during a normal dinner. Instead of just one wine throughout the meal, you may want to serve a different wine with every course. [more…]

Buying and Serving Champagne and Sparkling Wine

If you’re entertaining with Champagne or sparkling wine, you'll want to know how to best serve bubbly and which foods work well with sparkling wines.

Following is some advice for buying and serving Champagne [more…]

How to Preserve Leftover Wine

How can you preserve leftover wine if you don't finish the bottle? The best method of preserving wine varies depending on the type of wine and how much is left in the bottle. [more…]

How to Store Wine for the Long Term

If you’ve decided to collect and store wines over the long term, remember that poorly stored wines make disappointment inevitable. To keep wines indefinitely, you really need a wine storage facility with [more…]