Monday, January 24, 2011

Wine Lovers Secrets

“Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used” – William Shakespeare, Othello

Unless it’s Europe, wines can be intimidating as compared to other alcoholic drinks such as beer or cocktails. Most of the time, it is associated with fine dining, fancy restaurants, high-class social events. True enough, wine has collected for itself this elevated status since the complexities of wine don’t stop at the process of making the wine – it ends at the last drop of wine from the bottle.

 It is a known fact that winemaking process is complicated, slow, and long; besides, wine only gets better with age, so they say. Other than its production, the art of serving and tasting has fascinated individuals. Unknown to many, there are peculiarities in wine-drinking. People don’t sniff their glasses just out of habit; yes, there are reasons behind it.