Month: June 2023

Flavor of the day, Uncategorized

Wine’s calorie counting days are here: New EU law requires nutrition labels on bottles. Is U.S. next?

Healthy wine drinking is happy wine drinking. And European Union wine producers are doing their best to give consumers the information they need to make healthy, informed wine choices. As of December 23, 2023, all labels on wine sold in the EU are required to list theĀ  calorie content on the physical wine bottle label. […]

Italian, Uncategorized

Wine critic Antonio Galloni shines the sportlight on Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG

According to my Italian Wine Scholar textbook, Italy’s Vino Nobile di Montepulciano red wine has enjoyed great fame for centuries. French philosopher Voltaire mentioned it in his famous 18th-century work “Candide.” Famed novelist Alexander Dumas wrote about it in “The Count of Monte Cristo.” And Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, lauded it as his favorite […]