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Chasing Grapes: The Wine Dinner, a Great Way to Learn About Wine

Chasing Grapes: The Wine Dinner, a Great Way to Learn About Wine

Learning about wine is just as much fun as kicking back with your favorite glass at the end of your day.  It’s easy to grab the same bottles every time.  It’s much more fulfilling to take a few risks and foray into new and different wine regions to explore something you’ve never heard of.  In...
Chasing Grapes: Sultry Reds to Warm Up Your Cool Nights

Chasing Grapes: Sultry Reds to Warm Up Your Cool Nights

Falling in love and indulging in truly sensual experiences are the last bastions of an innocent, childlike wonderment that an adult can experience.  The world may lose its luster but it doesn’t have to lose its joy. Sensuality brings us pleasure by engaging our tactile, visual, audio, gustatory, and olfactory perceptions of the world around...
Chasing Grapes: The World’s First Premier Cru: Aglianico

Chasing Grapes: The World’s First Premier Cru: Aglianico

2,700 years ago, on the sun drenched slopes of Mount Falerna near Campania and Latuim in Southern Italy, Aglianico grapes basked in the sun in three very special vineyards. The first vineyard was known as the Caucinian Falernian and was located on the highest slopes, the second vineyard was the Falernian found on the lowest slopes; and between the two vineyards rested...
Chasing Grapes: Denver Food & Wine Festival, Sip, Savor, Sample

Chasing Grapes: Denver Food & Wine Festival, Sip, Savor, Sample

A great way to explore wine on a grand scale is to attend one of the many food & wine festivals that are held annually, all over the world.  You can connect with other wine lovers and foodies, neophytes to connoisseurs, and share your experiences, impressions, all while learning about new things, new people, new...
Chasing Grapes : For the Love of Champagne

Chasing Grapes : For the Love of Champagne

I find myself engaging in conversation about wine with people every day. In these conversations, I am often asked, “What is your favorite wine?” My answer is always the same…Champagne. Not just any sparkling wine: Champagne.  I have many other loves, but none thrill me like Champagne.  Yes, Barolo and Châteauneuf-du-Pape have tried to tempt me,...
Chasing Grapes : R&D Wine Store

Chasing Grapes : R&D Wine Store

The vast world of wine can be intimidating. There are often hard to pronounce foreign names and strange wine labels that give little insight into the actual contents in the tinted bottle.  Walking the aisles of an adult beverage superstore can be daunting with packed rows of dusty bottles.  It’s easy to get lost looking for something...