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Open your bottle safely…Here’s how!
Here’s a simple way to open that champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve: 1. Every bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine (with a few low-end exceptions) has foil wrapped around the outside of the cage. In the old days, some foil was lead-lined to keep mice from eating into the cork of wine, but in modern [...]
Continue reading...Wine “Legs” and Screw Tops
Monday, October 27, 2008
Here are a couple of issues that came up during discussions at our Diamond Ridge Wine Club meeting last month… What do we mean when we talk about a wine’s legs? In regards to wine, “legs” refers to the way that wine runs down the side of the glass after it is swirled. While some people believe [...]
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Monday, December 29, 2008
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