Month: December 2020

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When bottling a smooth wine like the 2015 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon, we had to take it despacito. Hope you enjoy our Despacito parody music video spoof on the biggest hit song of summer 2017. Watch more videos from Jordan at http://www.jordanwinery.com/videos. Compare the original video and the spoof at http://blog.jordanwinery.com/2017/07/despacito-embotellado-official-wine-music-video-parody/.

German wine labels carry an indication of the quality of the wine from table wines, or “Tafelwein”, to Qba or Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete to Qualitätswein mit Prädikat and the noble sweet wines called Trockenbeerenauslese. Harald Ziegler of Weingut August Ziegler in the Pfalz explains the system. This is part of a series of videos used

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Wine #2 is another great wine from a great vintage in a great region. Join James Suckling to learn what makes this wine exceptional.

Assistant Winemaker Ronald Du Preez discusses the importance of veraison thinning grape clusters: dropping unevenly ripened grape clusters to the ground. Veraison, the color change in grapes, begins in July or August, depending on weather. In years with cool summer temperatures like 2010, it is very important to remove unripened and unevenly ripened clusters from

The Languedoc-Roussillon, located in the south of France along the Mediterranean coast is one of the world’s largest winemaking regions. Winemaker Emmanuel Pageot of Domaine Turner Pageot gives a 10,000 ft overview of the region and some of the climates where wine grapes grow. Ask a Winemaker talked with Emmanuel in Chicago at Red and

When I was on tour in California, I played a gig at a winery in Temecula. While I was there, they took me on a tour and showed me the “correct” way to taste wine- I thought it was cool, so I wanted to tell yall about it! And if you’re ever in Temecula, CA,

Why do Italys top winemakers love Bolgheri? Maybe because this beautiful region in western Tuscany is grape heaven. Learn about Bolgheri as you visit the vineyards of Ornellaia with Leonardo Raspini.

Jordan Winery’s Claire Smith gives advice on aging, buying, and serving large-format wine bottles in Sonoma County, California. Blog includes infographic with an easy serving quantity conversions guide: http://blog.jordanwinery.com/2017/05/guide-for-aging-buying-and-serving-large-format-wine-bottles-with-infographic-and-video-tips/.

In the center of Portugal, the Dão is an isolated wine region that Sara Dionisio of Casa de Mouraz describes as being much like Burgundy in the sense that it has many small vineyards. The soil is granitic in the Dão and gives a mineral quality to many of them. Sara sat with Ask a

Jamie Goode visits Georgia for the first time. This is the country that has a strong claim as being the cradle of wine, where grape vines were first domesticated. And through some 8000 years of unbroken wine history, an ancient way of making wine in large clay vessels called qvevri has survived. Goode visits wine

The new guy does his best to help the grapes ripen.