Once you get the hang of it, it is quite easy to read French wine labels. Understanding a few of the terms and word phrases is much easier than it may look. European wine labeling laws provide more information to the buyer than what is usually found in America. This is why learning to read a French wine label is useful. One of the important parts of this is understanding the concept behind terroir. The place of origin is what gives the wine its true character. Wines are different because of ...
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December 22, 2017
December 22, 2017
In 300 years, your wine glass size increased about 700%.
It appears we have the 90s to thank for this. But the 90s drinking craze may have its origins back to the 70s. In the 1976, California wines first unseated French wines as the top wine producer in a blind taste test (read more about the 'Judgement of Paris' here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine)) This contest may not only have impacted where we buy our wine buy the size of the glass from which we drink it.