Exploring Wine: Buying, Making and Tasting Great Wine

You'll discover everything about wine here, from traditional grape varieties to exciting alternatives like berry and dandelion wines, plus expert guidance on cooking, serving, and enjoying wines from every corner of the world. Exploring Wine is here to help.

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Pinot Noir is one the classic grape varieties and the one most associated with high-end red wine. It has a reputation as being a notoriously difficult grape...

The Rhone Region: Rhone Wines

The Rhone region is known chiefly for its Northern Syrah varietal wines (see related article: ‘Shiraz’) whilst the Southern Rhine is known for its blende...

Wines from Around the World - Greece

Greece has one of the oldest traditions of wine making, being associated historically and mythically with the grape vine as much as with drunken revelry. Rec...

Elderflower wine is a traditional English drink made from the flowers of the Elder shrub or tree, which produces both flowers and berries. It has something o...

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Using Wine in Punch or Cocktails

For centuries the centrepiece of many a stylish European party would have been a bowl of delicious fruit punch. Made with the wine of the country and lusciou...

Which Wines for a Summer BBQ?

The story of cooking meat slowly over fire – or in a fire pit – is almost as old as civilisation itself, but it’s a practice that faded in popularity i...

The Right Wine for Christmas Dinner

You’ve got enough to worry about at Christmas without the added stress of what wine to drink with dinner so our first advice is: relax! Our next piece of a...

How to Make Sparkling Wine

Over 300 million bottles of champagne and many more million bottles of sparkling wine are drunk every year. That’s an awful lot of bubbly – and even more...

White Wine Making

White wine making is an art that has been developed over time. A wide range of white wine can be made encompassing all from the most delicately flavoured to...

Making Red Wine

Making red wine is an ancient craft. Although the wine making equipment may have changed and scientific knowledge increased, the basic steps have remained th...

History of Wine-Making in the British Isles

If we’re looking at wine-making in the British Isles, the first important point to make is that we’re not talking about British wine! British wine is the...

Wines From Around the World: Romania

Romania is one of the largest wine producers in Europe, and with a history of viniculture that goes back 6,000 years, it’s also one of the oldest. The Hist...

Wines From Around the World: Canada

For most people thinking about wine, Canada isn’t top of the list of wine-producing countries. But the fact is that Canada has a thriving wine industry wit...

Wines From Around the World: Lazio

Lazio, centered around the middle of Italy is a region split between two worlds – the Italy of the North, a prosperous industrial area bordered by the alps...

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