The Bordeaux wine region’s cool nautical environment and shallow gravel-and-clay soil gives its best wines a unique balance of grace. Saint Florin Bordeaux 2009 is also a fine product from the region of Bordeaux created from the blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.       Often called as the king of red grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon has traveled far beyond its origin... 

  Whatever is your choice, just enjoy drinking wine!!! A professional journalist, well know artist, most successful businessmen, prominent banker and heaps of people asked me in many occasions, what is Dry Wine? What does Dry Wine taste like? How Sweet Wine is made? Since, so many people curiously keep on asking these questions, I felt the need for information and knowledge about Sweet... 

  Merlot along with the most popular cabernet sauvignon and lesser known varieties cabernet franc, malbec and petit verdot, have their home in Bordeaux, the most popular wine region of France. Cabernet sauvignon dominates the western sub-region of Medoc, while merlot dominates the eastern sub-regions of Pomerol and St Emilion.     Most Bordeaux wines are blends of the varieties... 

  Can I have allergic reactions to wine?   Pawan Shrestha   Baluwatar, Kathmandu       Some develop headaches from drinking wine. One of the reasons is that sulfites added by the producer, or that are naturally present in lesser amounts, cause an allergic reaction. Furthermore, it has been suggested that cheaper wines, available in rmarket, are likely to have more... 

It’s an immense pleasure to write about the Croatian wines for this issue. The reason for this delight is that the Croatian wines are getting better nowadays. However, we Nepalese are least aware of the numerous  varieties of wine that Croatia has to offer. In a nutshell, Croatian wine production is a business that is doing eminently well. While few years back, the situation was not the same,... 

Last month, one of the regular customers of Royal Liquor Store at Pulchowk entered the store and asked the store attendants, “Do you have a ‘Merlot’ wine? Immediately, the store owner pulled out more than hundred bottles of wine; only fond blend of ‘Merlot plus Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz plus Merlot and Merlot plus Petit Verdot but couldn’t find single grape varietal ‘Merlot’ wine.... 

                    Does the age of the vine affect the quality of the wine? Sumnima Basyal Sohrakhutte, Kathmandu   You will sometimes see on French wine labels the term Vieilles Vignes (old vines). In California, there are many Zinfandels made from vines more than 75 years old. In Europe, South America, Australia, and South Africa, there... 

            “First-Growth and Exclusive Wines”, yes, we are talking about the exclusive First Growth and Exclusive Bordeaux wines. In the Bordeaux Classification of 1855, wine brokers ranked châteaus based on reputation and price. The classification ranked them within “growths,” or crus, from first down to fifth. The original classification... 

What is the difference between Vin de Pays and Appellation Controlée?   Swikriti Lamichhane Shifal, Kathmandu   These are two French systems for classifying and controlling wine production. Traditionally Appellation Controlée (AC) was for the best quality wines of specified regions, and wine would only qualify if following strict rules imposed by the AC authorities. Many winemakers... 

Appearance of wine What does it means? To many general wine drinkers and novice tasters, the detailed examination by a professional of a wine’s appearance seems something of a pointless exercise. However, little they know that the appearance reveals much about a wine, giving indications as to style, quality, maturity and revealing some possible faults. Clarity A wine that has finished fermentation... 

How does a wine producer makes his wine sweet? Sunita Kayastha Thamel, Kathmandu There are a variety of methods for making sweet wines. These vary from cheap and easy (stopping fermentation with some sugar remaining and topping up with sweet grape juice), to some of the most labor intensive and expensive processes in the wine making world. At the other end of the scale, Botrytis cinerea, or... 

How much wine constitutes a ‘unit’ of alcohol? Bigyan Sapkota New Baneshwor, Kathmandu It’s a common misconception that one glass of wine equals one ‘unit’. The unit in which alcohol is measured for those advocating healthy consumption is actually 10 ml of pure alcohol. So to work out how many units are in a glass requires you to know how much alcohol is in the...