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Wine Tips, Challenges and Food and Wine Pairings

Along the way we pick up tips from lots of people and of course we want to share!

Wine Tips - some of these tipsters are working in the wine industry, or hospitality and some just have a passion for all things wine. 💡

Wine Challenges - every now and again we find an easy way, or a challenge you can do, to show you more about wine. 💪

Food and Wine Pairing - we love wine (obviously) but we also love food! So, when we find a fabulous combination we're going to share that with you. 🍷🍕

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Wax on your wine cork!

Looks fab, but these can be really tricky. 🛠Grab a corkscrew and go straight down through the wax. 🚫 Don't try to get the wax off with a knife! 🤍 I love this wine - I'm a Chardonnay Lover. 🥚 Fermented in concrete eggs, the heat and shape creates a State of Flux - meaning the yeast is in constant contact with the wine. 🍼 Malolactic conversion too = a wine with more body, texture, creamy, nutty notes - yum! Dec 2024

Unfinished Fizz - one more day!

What? If you have any fizz left over, try a double layer of foil over the bottle opening - then pop it in the fridge. It might be good for one more day. This works best on traditional method style sparkling wines like Champagne, Cava (the Carbon Dioxide had been created in the bottle) 🍾 Most Proseccos will be made in the Tank Method so won't work as well :-(

Learn more about creating sparkling wine from WSET Level 2 upwards - not covered at WSET Level 1.

Thank you to Lucy from London for that one! Dec 2024

Food and Wine Pairing!

When pairing wine with a dessert - the WSET guidance is sweet foods and sweet wines work. At Christmas we had Panettone and Asti DOCG = OMG heaven 🤩

And I have converted some people to sweet wines, that makes me happy :-) #sharingwineknowledge

Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) - covered at WSET Level 2 - Behind the Labelling Terms

For my Mum, that's a gluten free Panettone jazzed up with cream, Ricotta, nuts and oranges. Dec 2024

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