Never thought of Corsica and wine before? Well, to be honest, neither had I, but the French #Winophiles are exploring the island and its wine this month and I have to tell you, I’m so glad I decided to join them. The wines I tried were not only delicious, they were very affordable, making Corsica…
Author: Side Hustle Wino
As though I have been bitten by a bug, I am suddenly obsessed with learning about wine. Not only the tastes and smells and varietals, but viticulture and history. It seems the more you learn, the less you know and in the pursuit of knowledge, an entire lifestyle devoted to the grape unfolds.
White Before Red? Definitely. Sometimes.
As a “general rule” when tasting through several wines it is almost always best to drink in a certain order: bubbles, white, red, sweet. The rule makes sense because you want to drink lighter bodied wines and wines with higher acidity before drinking bigger bodied wines and wine with higher tannins. But rules are sometimes…