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The Alsace region is one of the smallest wine producing regions of France, even so, understanding Alsace wine can be problematic and a specialist would help.

The real pleasure of making your own wine is the moment when you uncork your bottle and savor the results. Unfortunately, a lot of home winemakers have experienced massive disappointment.

If you ever visited a wine estate, you were probably left with the impression that it is a high-tech process best left to the professionals. That is really not so. People have been making wines with a minimum of equipment for thousands of years.

Winemaking is big business, but it is also a hugely satisfying hobby for wine lovers to pursue at home. One can choose how far to go, from just making wine to growing grapes and fruit, as grapes are the preferred source for wine but not the only one.

If you are having a wine tasting party, or even just a sunny afternoon, relaxing with friends by the pool, appetizers served with a suitable wine can be a real hit. Choose your foods as carefully as you choose your wine and your guests will be raving, and coming back for more.

Pizza may be associated more often with Italy, but the Mexican variety is hardly just a cheap knock-off. Quite the opposite.

Midway between Milan and Rome, Tuscany is bordered on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Apennines mountain range on the east.

The winemaking tradition in sunny Sicily dates back as far as four thousand years. Over those millennia the Sicilians, named for the settlers who introduced agriculture there, have raised wine grape growing to the level of the Italian Renaissance artist.

>One of three main Italian winemaking regions, Piedmonte lies at the confluence of the Tanaro and Borbera rivers, 45km (28 mi) southeast of Turin in northwest Italy. Moderately remote in this crowded modern world, it's braced by the Alps to the north and the Apennines to the south.