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Wine Aerators Reviewed

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Giving your wine time to breathe is essential to getting the true experience of a wine’s flavor and feeling. If you’ve previously been just opening up a bottle and drinking it immediately, then the simple change of giving wine time to breathe is going to make a huge difference in your enjoyment of the wines you choose.

The effect that this will have is going to depend heavily in the kind of wine you choose. If you’re drinking a younger wine, giving it time to breathe is going to mellow out the harsher notes and make it a more pleasant experience. The effect on older wines is almost the exact opposites, as it brings out lost flavors and allows you to taste subtle flavors that you might miss if you were just going to drink it straight from the bottle.

The problem with this is that while giving the wine time to breathe, it also means that you have to decant the wine and allow it in the mix with the air so that the molecules of the wine have time to interact with the oxygen in the air. While this works, it’s also incredibly time consuming.

Which is why some enterprising folks have created wine aerators, which are designed to allow the air to mix with the wine as your pour, so that you can enjoy the full flavor of wine without having to decant and wait. If you’re someone who wants to enjoy your wine without having to go through the whole ritual first.

Like anything else, not all wine aerators are created equal. The two main things to consider with wine aerators are how well they work and their aesthetics. You need a wine aerator to actually do the job it was designed to do, and you also want something that’s going to not look like something created by a glassblower who had a sneezing fit.

A wine aerator that is extremly popular in the UK is beginning to make itself known as an essential part of any wine lover’s kitchen in the United States. This wine aerator has a great rep, but does the actual device live up to the hype.

The first and by far the most important thing to consider is whether or not the Wine aerator does what it’s intended to do: does it bring out the full flavor of the wine. The answer is an unequivocal yes.

The design is where it takes its name from; as it weaves the wine around the air, a process that gives you an optimum mix of air and wine, and it really b rings out the subtle flavors of virtually any wine. It’s also designed so that it can work with both a decanter and individual wineglasses, which makes it a very flexible aerator.

The functionality would probably be enough to recommend the Weaver on its own, but it’s a pretty nifty piece of work. It’s made out of more or less unbreakable polycarbonate in a beautiful design, so you’ll be happy to have it on your table.

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Storing Wine Cheaply

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If you enjoy wine chances are you have a few bottles at home waiting to be opened. The more bottles you have the longer some of them will sit unopened. There are ways to preserve your wine to ensure that they last longer but that can come along with a hefty price tag. You may be able to find wine storage places in your town but that can become pricey and inconvenient if you want a bottle of wine and didn’t plan it in advance. Wine storage locations are more for a wine collector with expensive bottles of wine that will only be drunk on certain occasions. The best solution for the wine lover who wants to preserve their wine on a budget would be purchasing a wine cooler or wine fridge.

Wine coolers come in all different sizes and prices. The best thing to do is determine how many bottles you will need to store because that will determine the size of the wine fridge you will need to buy. Once you determine the size you need to determine what your price range is and try to find one within that price range. If you are having a tough time finding a fridge in your price range you will need to look at discounted wine fridges or even refurbished products. You can also wait until the items go on sale or even clearance. You should also browse online sites for good deals. eBay will almost always have decently price wine fridges, as well as Amazon.

Once you find the perfect fridge within your price range there is no other cost involved, other the electricity it takes to power your wine cooler. Once you may the initial purchase you will be able to store your wine for as long as the wine fridge last, which hopefully is for many years to come.

A good temperature to store your wine would be around 60 degree Fahrenheit. Some may argue that 55 degrees is a better temperature, but I have found I am able to get better tasting red wine from a storage temperature of 60 degrees. With red wine 55 seems too cold, but it may be a good temperature for white wine.

All in all the cheapest way to store your wine safely is in a wine fridge or wine cooler. It is a one time purchase and if you keep your eye out for a good deal you can pick up one for a very reasonable price.

 

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I Love Italian Travel – Wine Touring In Trentino-Alto Adige

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So you are planning a visit to Trentino-Alto Adige, a region of northeastern Italy bordering Switzerland and Austria that features the Alps and the Dolomites. Ski resorts abound as do forests. Most residents of Alto Adige designate German as their mother tongue. Let’s start at Caldaro in the southwest of Alto Adige. Its town center hosts and the historic Church of Santa Caterina in the center of Caldaro; it’s also home to a beautiful lake and the Museo Provinciale del Vino. Naturno is home to the Seventh Century Church of San Procolo whose ancient frescoes are among the oldest in the German-speaking world. Nearby you’ll find the Thirteenth Century Castel Juval. Merano, sometimes called the city of flowers, boasts many beautiful promenades. The famous Cure Promenade splits into two, the shady Passeggiata d’Estate (Summer Promenade) and the sunny Passeggiata d’Inverno (Winter Promenade). If you’re in the neighborhood be sure to see its Christmas Market. The local capital Bolzano (Bozen) has a fine Gothic cathedral, other churches worth visiting, as is South Tyrol Archeological Museum whose star attraction is Oetzi, the over five thousand year old iceman. There’s a strada del vino (Weinstrasse-wine route), which runs mostly in Alto Adige from Salarno to Bolzano.

Trentino has many sights to see including Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (Italian Historical War Museum) in Roverto. Its capital, Trento, was the site of the historic Council of Trent that shaped the Church in the Sixteenth Century and is home to many classical churches. Don’t miss the fresco collection at the Museo Provinciale d’Arte (Provincial Art Museum) situated in the Castello del Buonconsiglio (Castle of Good Counsel). Madonna di Campiglio advertises itself as Italy’s number one ski resort.

The region is not home to any DOCG wines and few of the DOC wines stand out from the others. Perhaps surprisingly given its northern location, this region still produces more red than white wine. Regional wine classification is different from most of the rest of Italy. The Alto Adige DOC includes dozens and dozens of grape varieties and styles. Trentino and Alto Adige share only two designations. It’s fair to say that you can’t pick a wine on the basis of its name. But isn’t that often the case elsewhere in Italy, and around the world?

Grape varieties abound. Let’s start with the whites. Gewuerztraminer may have first come from in the Alto Adige town of Termeno (Tramin). Pinot Bianco is important as is Sauvignon Blanc often called Sauvignon. The popular German Mueller-Thurgau does quite well in Trentino. Try to find Nosiola, a Trentino native. The major local red is Schiava (Vernatsch) in both Trentino and Alto Adige. Other important local Trentino varieties include Teroldego and Marzemino. Alto Adige’s second most popular local red grape is Lagrein. The popular international red grapes are Pinot Nero, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot which are also grown in Trentino. My apologies for the relative complexity of the region wine scenes.

Companies selling regional wine tours include Prime Italy, Vineria, Wine Tour Italia, and Alabaster and Clark Wine Tours Worldwide. Some of the regional wineries accepting visitors include Pojer e Sandri in Faedo, Tiefenbrunner in Bolzano, and Cantina Produttori Valle Isarco in Chiusa. A few words of warning are in order. Make sure that you check ahead of time for opening hours and whether English is spoken. Some of these places may charge admission; others may expect that you purchase some of their products.

Red Wine Diet – Can All Wines Help in Losing Weight?

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Everybody enjoys a glass of red wine. It is one of life’s little indulgences, but sometimes, some studies tell us that they are not good for our health. In the 1990s, the idea of red wine as a way to lose weight and have a healthy heart and body has led many researchers into creating diets that include wine. Today, the red wine diet has gained the interests of so many people and has grown in popularity for several years now.

Is Wine Good For Our Body?

Wine may contain a little alcohol, but it also contains procyanidins. These types of flavanoids lower our cholesterol and keep our blood pressure at a minimum. It also helps to lose weight because it makes your tolerance for exercise increase so you can do more exercises and burn more body fat. Red wine also prevents certain diseases such as heart disease, dementia, and diabetes mellitus.

Are All Wines Good For Us?

Not all wines are healthy, especially if you choose the sweet ones. In this diet, the skill in choosing the right wine is needed. If you cannot tell if a wine has been processed too much or if it has been fermented for quite some time, then it will be hard for you to follow this diet. All you need to remember is that the good wines are usually those that come from Italy and France. Younger wines and those that are allowed to settle instead of being processed typically contain procyanidins.

With two to three glasses of wine a day, you are not only keeping your body healthy, but you are also enjoying life’s simple pleasures. Just be sure to choose the proper wine before starting this diet. And never expect instant results, because this is intended to be a lifelong diet. A glass of wine every night will make you feel fuller and healthier as you slowly reap its benefits.

Making Wine at Home

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People’s love for wine has extremely grown today. Not just in some countries but all over
the world. This is reason enough that the need to know how to make homemade wine is
tremendously increasing for personal consumption. Wine making equipment and supplies
today are readily available in stores anywhere. It allows wine lovers to make it possible
for themselves to stack their wine racks with their own homemade wines. The best thing
you get in making wine by yourself is fulfillment and contentment for the efforts spent.

For many years people have tried making their wines especially red and white wines at
home and have failed. As more people have tried to make this a hobby the materials,
supplies and recipes are being improved. The wine making kits help a lot and more
people learn to love and make home wine making their leisure and gratification. There
could even be times when some group of wine lovers exchange recipes to improve the
flavor of their own batches. How one person appreciates his/her homemade wine would
not be the same as how others would also value theirs. However, the kits available for
making homemade wine help make unswerving and dependable results so that more
people would enjoy the same wine.

For special family occasions like Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, reunions and other
more wine makers and lovers may make special wines in preparation for these occasions.
This would make the special day enjoyable. As you look forward to the gathering, you
can time the preparation of your vintage as you know when to bottle and how long the
aging period is in time for the occasion. You also will reap financial benefits by making
your own wine at home. Wine connoisseurs will only tell you that the more expensive
the wine the better it tastes, but this is not true all the time. The more you keep on
making your own home made wine soon you will be able to produce an excellent and
exceptional tasting wine.

Normally, the more you learn about something the more you learn to appreciate its
complexities. The more you would love to do it. The same thing goes with wine
making at home, the more you learn to make it, the more you will love to do it.

As you keep doing this, in just a short period of time you’ll find yourself into that hobby
and wine making at home will be your passion then. You will absolutely enjoy it, even
your family and friends will get into your passion. Dare yourself…Homemade wine
making is really a grand and exciting learning experience. Make it a hobby, be satisfied
and enjoy.

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