While we often hesitate to become overly geeky when describing wine, understanding tannins helps to appreciate how they affect the taste, texture and ageability of our favorite selections. At their ...

Continuing exploration of wine tasting descriptors. ¦ Tannin. Tannins come from grape skins, seeds, oak barrels. Tannin creates puckery, black tea-like sensation in your mouth that some people hate ...

Wine connoisseurs can easily discriminate a dry red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, from a fruitier red, like Pinot Noir. Scientists have long linked the 'dryness' sensation in wine to tannins, but ...

Reports from European retailers such as Vinha and direct to consumer platforms like FromVineyardsDirect have observed that orange wines are no longer confined to experimental shelves. They are moving ...

The ancient Celts were a people of the forest. They used a lot of wood in their daily lives, for housing, cookery and art. Sometime around the 5th century B.C., they came up with an ingenious new way ...

If you are a red wine lover, you can easily understand the difference between dry wine and fruitier wine. Have you ever wondered why some of them taste dry and some don't? A recent study has found ...