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Have You Heard Of Wine Bars

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

If you like wine and you adore to go, then you must consider heading to France to attend some of the Earth’s most celebrated wine tasting events. This is as Paris is respected for a load more than its monuments and museums. Paris is also famous for manufacturing some of the best wines in the world a secret that came out in 1976.

In 1976 a wine tasting event occurred with 9 tasters, 8 of whom were judged to be the top wine tasters in France. The event was a blind tasting, suggesting that the judges didn’t know the identity of the wines that were being tasted at the wine bars. After this event, the admiration for wine tasting in Paris grew to what everyone knows it as today.

You can now find events at wine bars included in nearly each wine tour of Paris. This is perhaps because there are plenty of wine bars in this area that have regularly prepared events. Just make sure you go prepared to do lots of spitting as you taste these countless wines as you’ll likely find one or 2 that you detest. If you do decide to go to Paris to taste the many tasty French wines at the city’s wine bars, then you should be prepared to sample masses of great quality wines.

One of these wine bars is Castle , which offers cheap wines. There’s also Willi’s which offers you more than two hundred and fifty differing types of wine to make a choice between. Naturally, there are plenty of other wine bars also available so you will have no problem finding one that will suit you wants. Lots of these multinationals open early and stay open for the majority of the day and late into the night. They not only offer you fine wines, but they also offer you glorious food to make a choice from also. You don’t wish to miss visiting Paris’ many fine wine bars.

If you’ve a chance to do that, then ensure you plan to spend at least a couple of days enjoying yourself in this stunning town. While there, you should also visit some of the wine shops so you can bring back home some great selections that can’t be found some place else.

The New Wine Bar Experience

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

In the past you could expect to see people drinking wines at family dinners, special occasion, weddings and other types of events. Wine was considered as a privileged drink to be savored by the wealthy who were supposed to know all of the inner workings of wine drinking. This has now completely changed and these days in various places around the world you can see many people enjoying wine at wine bars.

Unlike the wine bars of yesteryear where the wine server (like a bartender) would look like his was the only opinion on wines that mattered, today it is the customers who make the choice of what they want to drink. While having inexpensive wines is still common for many people there are those who don’t mind paying more for a good quality wine.

Those who patronize wine bars are frequently in their 20s to mid-30s. And these patrons are much more knowledgeable about the various kinds of wine and the subtleties of each type’s flavors. In addition these people are not afraid to drink new varieties of wine. This openness to new wines, however, does not mean that today’s wine bar patrons will guzzle anything you put in front of them. With this better-informed customer base, wine bars must be conscious not only of price, but bottles presented must also look palatable.

These new wine connoisseurs have been educating themselves on how to taste a fine wine. While this knowledge is not that vast there is practical experience to back the ideas up. Wine bar patrons know how to properly check a wine for its color, and to “sniff” the bouquet to get a first impression of a wine they don’t know. Most wine bar patrons won’t claim to be experts, but most can tell a Chardonnay from a Riesling.

To cater for these discerning wine lovers wine bars have revamped their look and they now sport a good selection of wines from various countries that produce good quality wines. Expensive wines that few of us could afford to open sit side-by-side with less pricey but still very respectable bottles. There will be a selection of red wines and white wines, sparkling wines and sweet wines. In short you can expect to see many known and new varieties of wines at these wine bars.

A natural extension of the increase in popularity of wine bars has been that people want to take that experience home with them. More and more people now want to maintain wine collections at home that previously only commercial establishments or professional collectors could have housed. A very small collection can very quickly become a mid-size collection of 100 to 150 bottles or more.. And this can lead to a difficulty: how do you store and display a collection of that size in the limited space available in most houses and apartments.

Fortunately, the Danby DWC166BLSRH, a 166-bottle dual zone executive wine cellar offers the perfect solution for the aficionado with a mid-sized collection of wines that need to be cared for. This unit features two separately regulated wine storage compartments, which is critical for storing either red and/or white wines at their optimum individual temperatures. The cherry-wood stained shelving system glides out effortlessly, without distubing the wine, offering easy access to any bottle in the unit. Inside, the DWC166BLSRH uses “Cool Blue” LED lighting, providing sufficient interior light and an attractive effect without the wasted energy and wine-damaging heat of incandescent bulbs. Both the shelves and the tinted tempered glass door (which can be locked) are trimmed in stainless steel, complementing any kitchen decor.

So while it looks like the trend toward increasing popularity of wine bars will not go away any time soon, those who enjoy wine bars now have options for taking the wine bar experience home with them with the Danby DWC166BLSRH.