Quality Wine Glasses Enjoying wine employs the human senses of sight, smell, and taste. Invest in good wine glasses to obtain the full potential of your senses. You don’t have to pay an “arm and leg” to buy decent wine glasses. Just follow a few rules when selecting glasses and you are sure to get [...]

Why do some wines get better with age while others turn to vinegar? Well, wines only turn to vinegar when they are fermented by acetic acid bacteria known as mycoderma aceti. Many wines have a bit of acetic acid in them, usually below the threshold of detection but not always. What usually happens to wines [...]

Finally, a wine bar in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago! Vino lovers can choose from 25 wines by the glass and 70 by the bottle. The bar’s sommeliers chose what to carry after tasting more than 700 wines. The regularly changing list spans the globe, focusing on smaller producers that might be hard to find [...]

Although the pop of a champagne cork is often associated with ringing in the New Year, if we treat a bottle of good bubbly properly it should be something less than an uncontrolled explosion. Champagne spewing from the bottle is simply wasted wine. Some simple rules: Champagne should be nicely chilled before opening; cold keeps [...]

If you’re a wine lover and would like to get to know more about this complex and popular beverage, there’s no better way to broaden your horizons than by learning the fine art of wine tasting. For a richer experience, you’ll want to do more than simply pour wine into a glass and sip it. [...]

Best Chicago Wine Bar – 2009