Free Wine Guide

Free wine Guide - This wine guide is packed with useful information, that you can take with you when you buy wine in a supermarket, wine merchant or restaurant. It may help you select better wine.

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The wine guide covers

• Food and wine matching
• Grape varieties aromas and flavours
• Old World wine region grape varieties
• Vintage chart
• How to taste
• Wine faults
• Wine serving temperatures
• Storing wines

• Chianti Classico econonically unviable for most producers, says Antonini
  Chianti Classico's economic model is unsustainable for many wineries because they cannot recoup the high production costs imposed by its strict rules, according to one of the region's leading winemakers.
• Red wines may have premature oxidation problems, say Bordeaux researchers
  Researchers at Bordeaux university's faculty of oenology have identified a potential issue with premature oxidation affecting red wines.
• ASC opens new 'Wine Residence' in Shanghai
  ASC Fine Wines, one of China's biggest importers, has just opened a new club or 'Wine Residence' in Shanghai.
• Bordeaux 2012: Figeac drops 33% on 2011 as en primeur campaign draws to a close
  The 2012 en primeur campaign has entered its final stages with the release of Vieux Chateau Certan, L’Eglise Clinet, Leoville Las Cases, Brane Cantenac, Figeac and Léoville Poyferré.
• Jacky Lorenzetti buys Chateau Behere vines
  Property magnate Jacky Lorenzetti has beaten at least one First Growth in a fierce bidding war for Pauillac estate Chateau Béheré, whose vineyards lie next door to Chateau Mouton-Rothschild.
• Dom Perignon 2004 selling out within hours of release say merchants
  London’s wine merchants were delighted on Thursday morning to get a preview of Dom Perignon 2004 â€" as one said, ‘Finally, something we can sell’ after the lacklustre Bordeaux en primeur campaign.
• Pomerol's Chateau La Commanderie sold for €8m
  Chateau La Commanderie in Pomerol has been sold to a young Hong Kong couple, Andrew and Melody Kuk.
• Lurton and Dubourdieu team up for Winter Olympic wines
  Two new wines from Pierre Lurton and Denis Dubourdieu have been released to raise up to £100,000 for the British Winter Olympics Skeleton bobsleigh squad.
• Sideways author sets sights on Broadway as chances of film sequel diminish
  Rex Pickett’s play of his film Sideways is a step closer to Broadway after he recruited award-winning director Des McAnuff, but prospects for a big-screen sequel remain small.
• Bordeaux 2012: Ausone, Cheval Blanc, Cos d’Estournel release below 2011 price
  Chateau Ausone is ‘an unqualified success’ with a price drop of 28%, wine merchants say.