Wine and Witchcraft Wine has been associated with witchcraft throughout history. The ancient Greeks believed that pouring wine on the ground could appease wandering spirits. 

How Do You Lose a Whole Wine Region? Puy de Dôme in the Auvergne region is known as France’s “lost wine region.” It’s only 100 miles from Burgundy and has a winegrowing history that began in the 6th…

Remueur Has It You Have Champagne Problems In traditional Champagne production methods, there would be a remueur, someone who manually riddles (rotates) the bottles of wine to ensure the sediment slowly cascades towards the neck of the bottle.…

What Chardonnay and Pinot Noir have in Common Chardonnay is a cross between the white grape Gouais Blanc with Pinot Noir, a hybrid that came about in Burgundy in the Middle Ages. 

Breaking the Rules of the Wine Game In a recent survey of more than 2,000 Americans, 75% admitted they were intimidated by the “rules of wine.”