by Ben Bodenstein | Blog exclusive, Wine and Food, Wine Stories
The rules of what foods go with what wines, are written in stone, centuries old and unfortunately, often stringently observed. What about our modern foods?; foods that did not exist when those iron clad rules were made up. We know that the Declaration of Independence...
by Ben Bodenstein | Reviews, Wine Stories
Wine glasses are an integral part of the wine experience. We spent many years scoffing at wine snobs with their special glasses but, in truth, we were wrong; very, very wrong. We began our journey into wine glassware with a simple but very dramatic test that we...
by Ben Bodenstein | Canadian Wines, Wine Stories
This week we shall adopt a phrase from the Federal Government; we present a column based on “need to know.†We would like to acquaint our readers with a new entrant into the exclusive club of fine winemaking nations; Canada. That’s right Canada, our frigid...
by Ben Bodenstein | Wine Stories
This week we have decided to take a look at wine myths, wine stories, wine legends and wine fallacies. The first wine fallacy that we will explore is the old raspberry that red wine must be served at room temperature. To begin with, most of the wine rules were...
High Vacuum Engineer: Senior Technical Adviser and Feature Writer for Modern Photography Magazine (1967-1973), co-founder of Together Vineyards, an experimental vineyard in South Florida which was the southern most registered vineyard in the Continental United States. Co-Author of several books on Home Wine Making, Home Beer Making and Distillation of Spirits. Co-owner of Camera & Video Repair Institute in Sunrise Florida.