A Port Primer By The Glass

Every cloud has a silver lining….When life give you lemons, make lemonade. Well, a few positives to come out of the pandemic for me included on-line wine events, tastings and education. I capitalized on an online education opportunity offered by Symington’s School of Port and completed “The Essentials” course online. It’s a self-paced 16-episode video…

How Port Is Made

From the “A picture (or moving pictures) is worth a thousand words” file, is this short that is the final installment in my dessert wine series.  The video explains how Port wine is made. This video is a one of the finalists in the Wine Spectator 2011 Video Contest.  Click here to check out the…

Dessert Wine Primer; Part I – Fortified Dessert Wines

Dessert wines are sweet wines served with, or instead of dessert.  Dessert wines are also known as “stickies” because picking the grapes makes the workers hands sticky.  The term originated in Australia, but has become ubiquitously synonymous with dessert wines around the world. There are essentially two types of dessert wines, fortified and late harvest.  In…