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It's just grape juice...

Why is wine such an intimidating drink? It's glorified grape juice! Forget all the things you know about wine and allow us to shed some light on things. Wine is marketing. Making mind-blowing wine is surprisingly easy; it's selling wine that is the challenge. Here at VineSugar, we want to strip down all this industry jargon and explain the meaning, rituals and rational behind the things that intimidate wine drinkers.

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Learn to Buy the Wine Not the Bottle

Imagine yourself at a local grocery store, taking a look down the wine isle. It can all be pretty intimidating. I know that's how I felt when I first started shopping for wine. The wine isle felt more like a wall of wines, top to bottom and left to r...

Wine 101 for the Rest of Us

The continually growing interest in wines has sparked ever more questions about the basics of wine tasting, storing and serving. Let's get to the basics: Knowing a Wine by its Color Many factors affect a wine's color. A few more important ones ar...

How to Open Sparkling Wines

The first time I was presented with a bottle of Champagne, I was terrified. I knew, in theory, how to open the bottle but never had an actual experience to reference. Was it going to shoot off across the room? Was it going to spew everywhere and get ...