HM’s Food & Wine Magazine

•    Is there any drawback of Organic wines?
Everything has its positive and negative factor when compared to social, cultural and health issues. Organic wines also don’t have any escapade. The biggest problem for wine experts is to preserve this wine. There are no supportive chemical preservatives or added sulphites. So the short life of wine is a high risk. Therefore Organic wines are not pure organic and use of chemicals for preservation is accepted by consumers and producers.

•    Why do we use word ‘toast’ when it comes to wine or other beverages?
It is quite funny actually. Today toast stands for good health and good life. However in ancient Rome, the piece of toasted bread used to be dropped in wine. From this tradition the term toast is attached with the wine and other beverages.

•    In your article, I have often noticed the rule of thumb as mostly used word, can you explain more?
Lovely question, in fact I always wanted to share this story. Normally Rule of Thumb means measurement in a proximity. In other words you can say being close to facts or accuracy. The use of thermometer is used today to check the temperature but in olden days people used to dip their thumb in beverages to check temperature. This is how the word rule of thumb became popular.

•    Is it true that word Honeymoon comes from wine?
Well, not exactly though it has a link with each other. It is believed that in ancient Babylonian culture, the son in law has to be provided by mead (fermented honey drink) with a month full stock. The Babylonian month is based on lunar calendar and by providing the honey based drink for a month gave birth to ‘honeymoon’.