Do you remember what the key factors were that made you fall in love with wine? Was it through visiting a winery or tasting a specific bottle? How about movies or television? It was actually a little of all of these for me, though I did…
Illinois is my home state so I was really looking forward to selecting a new winery and sampling wines I had never tried before. The 21st state to join the US, it is recorded that wine has been made in Illinois for over 200 years. Concord…
Let’s start off with an admission: I had never been to Napa Valley before two weeks ago. Being a big fan of wine and living in California, there is simply no excuse for this. Though it’s not exactly a short trip for me (roughly a 6…
Visiting Shandong Province’s wine region and Changyu’s chateaus in northeast China had been on my list for a while. China often likes to call Shandong their version of Napa Valley in California. It’s along the latitude and shares a similar climate. I finally was able to…
Large international companies like Moët Hennessy have been focusing on the edge of the Himalayas, an area of northwestern Yunnan, China dubbed “Shangri-La”, due to its cool climate. When it comes to the topic of Yunnan red wine, the media in general tends to only focus…
Cambodia is not in a climate zone naturally suited for wine making since wine grapes typically need cooler temperatures to achieve the perfect levels of sugars and acid. These desired temperatures usually need to swing from warm to cold and with varying degrees of both depending…
