If you visited formal dinning party or restaurant, you might notice several tools next to the plates, from spoon, fork, knives, and glass, all of them got its own purposes. These time I’d like to discuss about glass, lets start it.

Wine experts agree that each type of wine require different glasses to give a deep impression of the aroma. For example using a sleek glass to drink Burgundy, will not provide enough space for the liquid beverage is to create a vortex and issued a special aroma.
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Soviet Champagne on Lenin Square (Donetsk)

Remember the Paris wine tasting of 1976 which was an unexpected shock for the French wine establishment ? For those who forgot the story, let’s remind the facts : In a blind wine tasting held in Paris that year, the California wines which were tasted unknowingly among top Burgundy and Bordeaux scored better than their French counterparts. The event was a great day for the Americans whose wines were at last taken seriously by the French themselves.
Now, another incredible similar blind tasting took place many years before, generating an equally-shocking bewilderment : This was at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 (the Eiffel Tower was only 11 years old). A Russian “Champagne” made by a Russian aristocrat born in 1845 and named Lev Sergeievitch Golitsyn went out first in a Champagne blind tasting, beating all the French Champagne wines taking part. Continue Reading »

As beer drinkers gather to toast St. Patrick’s Day, they might be surprised to discover that the shamrock-shaded beverage not only helps to instill Irish pride, it also could yield some major health benefits.

In fact, studies show that drinking beer — a customary way to celebrate the holiday — can help lower blood pressure and strengthen bones. What’s more, beer may be better for your health than wine.

If you’re surprised, you’re not alone. In a random survey of 1,000 adults that was conducted by the University of Maryland’s Center for Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Policy, 56% responded that wine was healthy, while only 16% thought the same thing about beer. Continue Reading »

History and Tradition
One of the first inhabited areas of Italy, Sicily was named after the ancient Siculians who introduced agriculture and animal husbandry in the 3rd millennium B.C. The Phoenicians came next; they founded a number of commercial centers and started intensive exploitation of the forests for construction of settlements and boats.
Between the Eighth and Third centuries B.C., the Greeks, who sometimes referred to the Island as Trinacria, a reference to the region’s triangular shape, ruled the island. They founded numerous colonies and developed commerce and agriculture. Continue Reading »

All royal families, the nobility and aristocracy always had the drink that was thought to be the most delicate and tasty. First men appreciated its taste and colour as well as aroma sitting in the armchair with the glass filled with cognac.
Cognac is the history that accompanies the history of humanity. It is one of the finest drinks that has different healing effects inspiring people.
And cognac formed the whole culture. And this culture includes the culture of making cognac, the culture of drinking cognac and the culture of mixing cognac. This drink always provoked interest in people of different ages and social categories. That is why our site is for everybody who wants to know some interesting facts about this wonderful drink. Continue Reading »