Imagine a chilly evening, the kind that beckons for a comforting bowl of soup and a glass of wine to warm the soul. Tonight’s selection is a classic tomato soup, paired with an elegant red wine blend. This pairing, though unconventional, reveals a beautiful harmony that elevates both the soup and the wine to new…
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Repost: Heatwave – Short Term Overheating of Wine
With South Africa having one of its hottest transitions to Summer, the thought came to mind out how this heat affects our wine? and in this drought, we have to atleast drink wine right? (This is not medical advice at all). Came across this article that I just had to repost from Wineintro.com. We all…
Perfect Wine Serving Temperature
Because I’m South African, I will use degrees celcius but with modern technology, you should be able to convert it in less than 5 seconds! This has been a small debate between friends for a looong time. I have a friend, won’t mention the name, who puts ice cubes in her dry red wine and…
Know when a good wine has gone bad
I couldn’t agree more with wine.com. Thank you Jim Gordan Thank God and the world’s wine making universities that we don’t have to put up with many truly flawed, terrible wines anymore. But it does still happen. Here’s how to know the difference between a wine that just doesn’t suit you and one that should…
Wine: Tips on storage
I am a lover of wine. My fiancé and I travel to the cape vineyards at least twice a year to explore what’s new in the South African market. My journey started in my adolescent days, stealing really expensive wine from my parent’s collection and it ventured to buying the cheapest wine at university and…
Its Lady Vera 