Almost everyone on the planet has had some experience of opening a bottle of wine as millions are produced every year. As wine become more and more popular, so there was an increasing array of methods developed to get the bottle open. There has been a move towards screw top bottles recently which has taken [...]

Reading wine labels is the focus of this part of our wine 101 guide… If you buy wine, knowing how to read a wine label is a useful skill to have. Finding out what (and what not) to look for will help you buy wines that meet your perfectly your preferences. So, lets look at [...]

Since homemade fruit wine making is an interesting hobby, many of us look for good wine making instructions to make this hobby more successful, easy and fun. Truly, whenever we think about wine making, we cannot resist thinking about grapes. But the fact is you can use other fruits as well.  Using an instruction guide [...]

The amount of wine made every year is simply staggering. It has been enjoyed all over the world for thousands of years and the cup of choice is almost always the glass. Has the question ever crossed your mind though, why glass? Why not from a mug, wooden goblet or plastic cup? Sadly, there is [...]

We don’t often think of Michigan as a wine producing State do we, but look at the facts: Michigan has 13,500 acres of vineyards making Michigan the fourth largest grape-growing state. Most of this acreage is planted to juice grapes such as Concord and Niagara. About 1,500 acres are dedicated to wine grapes, making Michigan [...]