Wine Peeps is an independent wine blog dedicated to helping you get the most bang for your buck in wine. We do this through blind tastings of wine from around the world and calculations of Quality-to-Price Ratios (QPRs). We have a special interest in Washington State wines.
This week’s Wine Word of the Week is closures. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Closures for wine containers are necessary to avoid harmful contact with oxygen and have changed remarkably little until recent times. Corks are still the principal closures used for wine bottles, just as they were more than […]
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Red Mountain is generally considered the hottest AVA in Washington State. And by hot, I mean that it is home to some of the most highly sought after vineyards in the state. While Red Mountain is more well-known, Wahluke Slope is hot on its heels as prized vineyard land. And both Red Mountain and Wahluke […]
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For those of you who have never been, Leavenworth, Washington, is a quaint and beautiful Bavarian Village nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in the heart of the state. No matter the season, it is a great get-away tourist destination. And in recent years, it has also become a destination for wine lovers […]
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As gas prices climb higher and higher and your employer balks at that long-overdue pay raise, have you started looking for wines on sale at reasonable prices? Sure you have, but remember there is a big difference between a cheap wine and a bargain wine. A wine is only a bargain if it’s a good […]
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This week’s Wine Word of the Week is corked, not to be confused with the term corkage from last week. Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine: Corked is the pejorative tasting term for a wine spoiled by a cork stopper contaminated with cork taint. This is one of the most serious […]
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Growing wine grapes is not an uppity business; it is basic agriculture (see my post from June 16). And most growers are salt-of-the-earth folks. A wine grape consists of about 71-85 percent water, on average about 13-27 percent sugar (which is converted into alcohol during the fermentation process), and about 2 percent skin, pips and […]
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