The wine blog!

Article originally printed in ICON magazine- October 2006

In Part 1, 2 and 3 we explored different styles of red, white and summer wines. Now that you have probably found a few favourites you’ll want to have some in stock for entertaining and impromptu dinner parties or gatherings with family & friends.

It may seem a simple process buying wine, but keeping wine is a different matter. We can easily forget that wine is a living product, that is either enhanced when aged and stored correctly or ruined when stored in bad conditions.

Throughout future issues we will be discovering many fine wines, and I would like to ensure that you do not purchase these wines, then waste your money due to storing your wine in poor conditions, hence ruining it.

I see it as my responsibility to ensure that you get good advice in every aspect of enjoying fine wine.

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SPIRAL CELLARS DIGS DEEPER WITH FIRST U.S. INSTALLATION

By next year, it is predicted that over a quarter of all wine consumed worldwide will be in the U.S*, where wine sales have reached a record $26 billion. Not only are Americans drinking more wine, they are buying better quality wine to collect, and spending more money on it, leading to an increased demand for personal wine storage.

With this in mind, Spiral Cellars, the leading company in underground wine storage, previously only available to consumers in the U.K. and Europe, has made the decision to expand into the U.S market, with the first cellar being installed in the Seattle area.

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This blog is produced in association with Spiral Cellars- the home wine cellar company. Here you will find news, comment and advice on the exciting world of fine wines, wine storage, wine tasting events, building (and filling!) your very own home cellar.