If you’re ever in Portugal and love wine, the Douro Valley is an absolutely essential stop. Ideally, you would have more than just one night in this unbelievably gorgeous wine region, but if you’re strapped for time and want to see the rest of Portugal, here’s how you can really make one overnight stay count. …
Rachel Johnson
Despite looking a whole lot like San Francisco, this small, beautiful park is located in the Almada district of Lisbon! Boca do Vento park (Jardim Boca do Vento) and its panoramic elevator are perfect if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city for an afternoon picnic. And since it’s …
Forget tiny aerators and custom corkscrews! This Christmas, step up your holiday game with these super fun and unique stocking stuffers MADE for wine lovers. Winos accumulate a ton of wine related paraphernalia over the years, so during the holidays you have to work extra hard to get them something they A) don’t already have …
This question comes up in my family every November: what wines really pair best with turkey? This might be a hot take, but I believe people do Thanksgiving wine all wrong. Like… do you really want to be drinking a room-temp bottle of cab while you’re eating piles of steaming hot potatoes and stuffing a …
If Halloween is one of your favorite holidays, here are ten spooky bottles of wine to help you celebrate all month long! The majority of these wines are inexpensive and can be found at a Total Wine near you. Most importantly of all, these wines are all SPOOKTACULAR and sure to instill the strongest spirit …
If you love Halloween, wine, and gamifying your drinking, this is the perfect party game for you! It’s a HIGHLY modified version of the game of Werewolf — also known as Mafia — with far more drinking, and it’s a super fun wine drinking game to get into the Halloween spirit. Wine Werewolf Materials If …
Cabernet Sauvignon and similar reds that are high in tannins are some of the most popular wines in the world. But pairing tannic wine with food is not always an easy task, and often people get it wrong. Tannic wines are sometimes misunderstood and/or feared by the general public. Probably because people keep trying to …
Sweet wines are some of my favorite wines to pair with food! They’re so versatile and you can get super creative with food pairings. If you aren’t a fan of sweet wine, it’s probably because you just haven’t met the right sweet wine yet or had it with food. Or it’s possible Moscato was your …
People don’t always get excited when they hear you describe a wine as acidic, but it’s one of the most important qualities in a wine! Without acidity, a wine feels flat, lacks structure, and goes horribly with food. Pretty much all wines have some amount of acidity, but we’re going to focus on wines that …
As someone with a ton of wine-loving friends, I know how hard it can be to find unique wine gifts. When you search the internet for gift guides, it tends to be the same stemless wine glasses or engraved cork screws over and over and over again, so I wanted to give world the unique …