My Wine Word of the Week: Redox
Redox – A term describing the reductive-oxidative manner in which wine ages. As one element gains oxygen and becomes oxidized, another element loses oxygen becoming reduced. Early in the lifetime of a wine, it exhibits oxidative aromas and characters due to the recent influence and exposure of oxygen during barrel aging and/or the bottling process. [...]
Steenberg: A Taste of Terroir
It was the day before I had to fly back to Sweden, but there was time for one last wine tasting… there’s always time
Since the release of Steenberg’s Magna Carta it has created much hype and media attention, mainly due to its relatively high price point of 364 ZAR per bottle. In South [...]
Size Does Matter
You might already be familiar with the names given to different bottle sizes such as the 1,5 litre Magnum or the 3 litre Jeroboam perhaps… but did you know that there are officially 24 different bottle sizes?!
Mostly named after Biblical Kings, check out the list bellow of all 24 bottle sizes and their respective names:
Name [...]
