Learn how to read and understand French wine labels with this handy guide. Bottling Location: where the wine was bottled. Estate: the name of the Chateau or Estate where the wine is from. Type of Wine: the specific type of wine in the bottle. Vintage: the year the grapes were harvested. Classification: the wine or…
We’ve put together a list of 10 wine racks anyone can make! A home wine rack is a great solution to short term wine bottle storage. Even better, you can easily make one yourself! These are just a few beautiful designs to get you started! Wall Wine Holder from Rogue Engineer This simple design is…
Here at Prime Cellar, we do everything we can to ensure that the wine you order from us gets to you in perfect condition. The first step is a quick weather check. When We Ship During summer and winter, wine shipped across the country can be exposed to extreme temperature fluctuations leading to undesirable off…
What could be better than meaty, slow-cooked ribs? Meaty, slow-cooked rubs in a rich, velvety red wine sauce! Ingredients 5 pounds English style bone-in beef short ribs, cut into 2-inch pieces Kosher salt and black pepper 3 tablespoons vegetable oil 3 medium onions, diced 3 medium carrots, peeled, diced 2 celery stalks, diced 3 tablespoons…
Here at Prime Cellar, we read a lot about wine: ratings, reviews, blogs, and news. We thought it’d be fun to share some of our favorite sites with you. Without further ado, here is the Prime Cellar 2019 Wine Resource Roundup. Reviews and Ratings Cellartracker has crowd-sourced ratings and a way to keep track of…
Whether you’re planning a quiet get-together or a large dinner party, making sure you have enough wine for guests is, if not your number one job as host, it’s way up there. How many glasses of wine do you need for each guest? Most guides recommend 3 glasses per person. That’s easy but it’s a…
The first thing to know about dry white wine is that the dryness doesn’t come from the grape. Dry white wine is a style of wine that certain wines (and certain grapes) are traditionally made in. So, how do they make a wine dry or sweet? It’s all about the winemaking process. As grapes ferment,…
Wine investment is a big thing these days. In fact, in the past ten years, the value of wine as a luxury asset has increased 147% according to Forbes. While we all know we’re supposed to have a diversified investment portfolio of stocks and bonds, there’s a whole world of assets out there to invest…
One question we hear all the time is How do you store your wine? We understand that this is a central question for wine lovers and collectors. Wine is a delicate substance and maintaining its attributes while encouraging even more favorable ones to emerge over the course of years is truly an art form. Dangers…
Although the Rothschild family has controlled their celebrated chateau since 1853, the modern story of Chateau Mouton Rothschild begins in 1924. It was then that the young Baron Philippe Rothschild insisted on bottling all his wine at his Bordeaux estate, an unusual move at the time but now an all but universal practice. The reforms…
