By: Mark Adams Mark is a professional winemaker, author and frequent speaker on wine.  He teaches wine classes throughout the United States. Remember, for most people it takes a while to develop your taste for red wine and most people like white before they like red. So if you try red now and don’t like [...]

By Mark Adams Wine labels can be very simple or very complicated, depending on the winery or country of origin. At first glance there seems to be quite a bit of information. But it’s really pretty basic if you know what to look for. Let’s take a look at and American Wine Label. 1. Winery [...]

By:  Mark  Adams Every time I open a bottle of Champagne, I can’t help but think of the movie “The Christmas Story”. BTW, if you haven’t seen it, it’s a great movie and I put it in my top 10 of all time funniest movies. But anyway, in the movie all the young boy and [...]

By:  Mark Adams Mark is a professional winemaker, former winery owner, an author and frequent speaker on wine. As a kid who didn’t want to skip the brussel sprouts and go right to dessert? Well, now that you’re an adult, you don’t have to eat them…You can have dessert first! Strange concept, huh, dessert first? [...]