As I was looking through my weekly wine reading articles, I came across several items I want to report to you on. The 2020 harvest was damaged by devastating fires and many power outages which interrupted irrigation and the harvest in general. The prediction for the 2021 harvest is…
ages of people drinking wine, drought, grape harvest, most expensive bordeaux, wine production, yields
As I have gotten older, I have been forced to pay much closer attention to my health. I do this by watching what I eat and drink, and by exercising. For years I have heard and read that moderate wine consumption is good for your health. Let’s take a look at this theory today…
heart health, red wine consumption, wine and health
In last week’s blog we discussed dessert wines and reviewed an article written by Tom Welsh on the topic. This week we are “Flashing Back” to my July 8, 2020, blog on fortified wines. These wines are heavy duty dessert wines with alcohol levels from 15 percent to 20 percent. Let’s…
Commandaria, fortified wines, madeira, Madeira and Marsala, marsala, port, sherry, Vermouth
I am a big fan of dessert wines. On this site we have featured a few blogs on dessert wines in the past and I have a number of these types of wines in my own wine personal collection. I enjoy them so much we even added one to our Tiedemann offerings with the 2008 Tiedemann Dessert Wine. Over the next weeks we will be tasting dessert wines for the 530 Wine Bar. This is a task I am definitely looking forward to…
dessert wines, fortified wines, ice wine, late harvest wine, port
Since this is my 401st blog article, I wanted to write about something fun. Since we are into the hot days of summer, what better wines to discuss than Rosés? There is not much more comforting on a hot summer day than sitting around eating al fresco with several bottles of chilled Rosé…
pink wine, Rose, summer wine
It’s been a couple weeks since I reported to you on our current project, the 530 Wine Bar, located next to our LEX 530 Event Center in Elkhart. I believe we are about a month behind our original construction schedule – all due to the shortages of building materials and the overload of work our subcontractors are doing…
530 Wine Bar, Elkhart wine bar, wine tasting