wine
Alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice.
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Rosé wine
Rosé is the most misunderstood wine on the shelf — and quietly one of the most useful. It comes in every shade from the palest blush to deep coral, it flatters almost any meal, and yet many people still wave it away as sweet or somehow not serious. None of that holds up. Rosé is not a single grape or a sweet style; it is a way of making wine from red grapes, and most of the good stuff is bone-dry. Here is how it is made, the styles worth knowing, and how to choose, serve and pair it.
Wines for beginners
Getting into wine can feel like being handed a map with no key. The good news is that you do not need to memorise a single region or vintage to start enjoying it. You just need a smart first list. The eight wines below are not simply the most popular bottles — each one teaches you something different, and together they build a little map of your own palate, from crisp and light through to bold and rich, and from bone-dry to lusciously sweet. Taste your way through them and you will know, with real confidence, what you actually like.
Old world or new world wines, what’s the difference?
Marsala wine
Ask most cooks about Marsala and they will mention Chicken Marsala, zabaione, or the small bottle in the back of the cupboard used for occasional sauces. That is an accurate picture of how most Marsala is used — and there is nothing wrong with it. But it is only half the story.