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Accessories purchased at a wine shop online

accessoriesIn the wine tasting, as well as in the presentations and in everyday life, it is essential to have a good handling of the wine, which requires having a number of elements that make easier their use and presentation in the table. That is why today exists in the market a very large variety of wine accessories, as well as for professionals and amateurs, who are available to buy in Grau Online

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8 keys to good wine taster to buy online

Woman tasting wine in the cellarWhen buying wine online can be uncertainty. Knowing the wine cellar and the process will help a good choice in wines online store where customers can stay and freely enjoy the purchase. With practice you can learn to draw shades and ratings.

Once acquired some control of the tasting is possible to go further to refine skills. Here are 8 easy tips for tasting are summarized.

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Tasting techniques to buying wine online

vinoThe way we taste wine is of great importance and that is why we will explain step by step how to proceed after buying online wine tasting.

First and prior to the completion of the tasting, it is to check the temperature of the wine. Depending on what type of wine it must be at a temperature or another.

In white wines, this should be between 6 and 12 degrees. The red wine, meanwhile, is recommended to be between 14 and 19 degrees. And finally the rosé wine, the temperature will vary between 8 and 12 degrees.

Having gained the right temperature, we will have to start tasting that primarily consists of 3 parts in the following order: visual, olfactory and gustatory.

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Fundamental criteria for buying wine online

wine-853109_1280Buy an online wine is always a difficult task and requires taking into account different aspects, both technical and contextual, so the choice is the right one. Thus, the main questions you must answer the consumer to visit a wine shop online, are its price and what type of dish will accompany. It must also take into account criteria such as:

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The 8 best wine tours in Spain

Kunstwerk KaiserstuhlThe wine offer from our country is so wide and varied that it is complex to reduce it by a few paragraphs. Yet in today’s article we offer some of the best wine tours to delight your palate on our next holiday. Some of them are well known for their world famous wines. With other proposals we want to show us the wines much less known but no less prestigious.

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How can last a wine?

 

winery_wineKnowing how much can last a wine in optimal conditions for consumption is an important issue to consider for any oenophile and especially for those who have a small winery.

The issue is complex, since wine can evolve for better or worse over time depending on the conditions under which has been preserved, the process of development and many other factors.

Since the wine is bottled and until it is ready to be enjoyed can improve during some time. The optimum time of consumption is when it has reached its maturity or maximum balance. From that moment begins to deteriorate, it loses strength and can reach to turn sour.

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What kind of wine can accompany chocolate?

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Chocolate is one of those present indispensable pleasures in many desserts and formats to taste portions, such as tablets and chocolates. The strength of its flavor makes it sometimes does not know what the best accompaniments for him.

Perhaps thinking accompany a portion of chocolate with wine is something we may seem inappropriate in principle, but the nuances and complexity of flavors of both makes them become a great pairing if we succeed to combine the perfect pair for every occasion .

There is no exact formula to combine both, but you need some basic guidelines to know for enjoy a unique experience for the palate.

As a general rule, the wine must be at least as sweet as chocolate with accompanying him. Otherwise, the taste of wine would be too bitter or acid.

White Chocolate + Wine Moscato or Chardonnay fruity

The peculiarity of white chocolate contains no cocoa solids. Its composition cocoa butter gives a sweeter taste and buttery texture to look soft and delicate to combine wine. The Moscato wine and fruity Chardonnay wine is some varieties that combine perfectly with white chocolate. The wine accentuates the texture of the chocolate while it highlights the fruity tones of wine.

The contrasts are also suitable even riskier. It’s all about experimentation to find the right combination.

Black Chocolate + Cabernet Sauvignon

The darker the chocolate is, better combined with robust and earthy wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. The fruity flavours and tannin balance the bitter chocolate flavour.

If we speak of a black chocolate containing cocoa not very high (between 50% and 65%) are suitable wines from varieties like Merlot, vintage port or Chianti.

The most bitter (from 70% cocoa) chocolate have a very intense flavour that requires a wine flavour and texture pairing, like a Bordeaux wine.

Milk chocolate + Pinot

At the halfway point between white and black chocolate is milk chocolate, which is creamy and sweet in more balanced proportions.

To taste these chocolates we can opt for the scent of cherries and blackberries from Pinot Noir or a white wine with fruity and floral aroma.

For more classical tastes combination with Oporto be a safe bet, while the more adventurous can accompany with a sparkling wine.

In our online wine store, you can find an extensive wine cellar with wines that blend perfectly with the chocolate. Just browse our sections and buy online wine to enjoy at home.

How do you combine the chocolate?

You want to know the latest news about the technology of wine? New Apps

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Those who appreciate enjoy a good glass of wine at a meeting with friends or with a delicacy dishes, now technology allows us to be informed at all times and anywhere on the wide range of wines available.

Therefore, today we inform you of new apps for iPhone and Smartphone that clicking provide us all the information about the best places to sell wines, features, prices and reviews from other users.

Today I talk about some of them that are in Spanish

Virtual Sommelier

It is a free application with the assurance of being supported by the sommelier Raúl González. Its most important function is to help us to choose the best wine with each course we want to taste. It offers more than 150 proposals with accurate information about each wine. Users can create their own virtual cellar and share on social networks opinions, recommendations and tasting notes for each wine.

Mi Vinoteca

Despite its simplicity it is very effective and can create our own virtual wine cellar with wines that have been tested and classified according to their characteristics and our preferences and tasting wine experiences. It also offers wine tokens that can be shared with other users.

Baco

It is a social network around wine. With this application we can comment, valorate and mark wines, besides to share with the rest of users our activity. Suitable for amateur who need ideas to choose a wine and also for experts who can help other users with their opinions.

Pair it!

If you want to know what is the wine that combines well with the food that you will enjoy , this one is definitely your app. With only indicate the dish to the application, proposes you a recommendation from over 20,000 possible combinations. And also the other way around: indicates what wine you’re going to taste it and will recommend the dish that is most appropriate. It also allows saving pairings for consultation later.

Vinthink

A real social network where passionate and amateurs of world of wine can share opinions and evaluate wines. It has over 55,000 references of wines and 11,000 wine cellars of Spain, France, Italy and the United States. Allow to search wines with varied criteria, type of grape, variety, region, appellation of origin…

App Vivino

An application to get your wine in a second, just taking a picture of wine bottle where you can share and advise different people for your next wine. You can also find prices, ratings, reviews and recommendations or suggestions for pairing with food.

Grau Online

It is one of the best wine shops in the network, with 9,000 products for sale, including wines from all denominations of Spanish origin and a selection of the best wines from over 40 countries around the world. GrauOnline have an aplication in English for Iphone and ipad.

There are some Apps for wine lovers that the language is in English

Corkz

This application combines wine search, pricing information, cellar management, social features and reference definition/articles. Also have a text search and barcode scanning to find harvest information about tasting notes from Cellar and finds what you’re looking for. This app is like having a sommelier in your pocket.

Wine Events

Allows users to find easily nearby wine and food events and their schedules, explorate events in other cities, discover featured events and share event with your friends. It offers a dizzying array of choices for wine lovers. 

Corkbin

In this application you can track you’re own history of wine and sharing it out to social networks (Facebook and Twitter). It’s the easiest way to remember, discover, and buy wines you love.

Also the users can leave ratings and comments. Another features that have are, capture wine labels, ratings and location with ease, dictionary of common wine terms.

Hello vino

This is an application that suggests wine. You can discover food pairing for the wines you already have, browse categories and subcategories of wines based on occasions, taste preferences, and wine varieties.

Also you can take pictures of the bottles that you’ve enjoyed and sharing it.

The horizontal and the vertical wine tasting

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The world of wine include a huge variety of types of products, with numerous designation of origin that include wines of different colors, calms or sparkling … According to the crop year, type of grape used, the region where it is grown and the processing conditions are obtained flavors, textures and aromas different from each other.

To choose a good wine, it makes tastings successfully used to assess the characteristics of each wine are made. Until recently few years, the world of wine tasting was exclusively for professionals. However, nowadays the wine tasting has approached to the individuals who want to know the hidden details of a good wine.

In wine tasting is used taste, smell and sight. There ways that we should learn to strengthen to differentiate the multiples hades of wine. With a little practice, for example, it can differentiate the wines of designation of origin Rioja against the wines of designation of origin Ribera del Duero.

The perfect place for a tasting wine should be well illuminated and ventilated. The environment must be free of odors and be at media temperature. Therefore, the winery is the ideal space.

Each wine should be served at the right temperature in a transparent and colorless glass. Whites, as designation of origin Rueda, should be served between 6 ° C and 9 ° C, the barrel and the pink wine at maximum of 13ºC and the aging and reserves wine between 16ºC and 18ºC.

The professional wine tastings, where the quality of the grapes is analyzed, scent, persistence, and other factors with which the wine is scored, can be of two types: vertical or horizontal.

THE VERTICAL WINE TASTING

The vertical wine tasting involves making a wine tasting session with same characteristics but different crops. For example, a tasting of wines from designation of origin Priorat, of the same winery but from different crop would be a vertical wine tasting.

Its purpose is to check the quality of conservation and evolution of the wines. They are holding councils designation of origin and the wineries, and are often supplemented by chemical controls.

THE HORIZONTAL WINE TASTING

In the horizontal wine tastings, it tested from the same crop and the same designation of origin to compare the quality of the grapes and making wine.

Thus the regulatory boards of designations of origin ensure that the bottles sold of each region have mandatory features of quality and the wines will be representatives of territory.