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Welcome to the Gold Medal Wine Club Blog. Below you can peruse our most recent wine blog posts with engaging topics ranging from frequently asked Wine Wizard questions published in our Gold Wine Club newsletter, to even some fun wine tips and tricks! Discover wine tasting guides, recipes and more to grow your wine knowledge that will impress even the snobbiest of wine snobs.

Interested in a topic we haven’t covered yet? Email us with an idea or question about wine and you may see it appear in our next blog post!

One Year Later: Coronavirus and the Global Wine Industry

Erin O'Reilly - Certified Specialist of Wine

The wine industry is just now publishing their annual wine production and sales reports for 2020. Retrospectives with asterisks. International producers faced different hurdles to move their wines to market under pandemic conditions, often facing strict government regulations and shifting policies as the scientific community learned more about COVID-19. Here’s a quick look at the pandemic’s impact on several major wine regions.

What is Wine Mouthfeel?

Erin O'Reilly - Certified Specialist of Wine

If you hang around wine drinkers long enough, you’re undoubtedly going to hear a lexicon unique unto the wine world. Is the wine ‘linear’? Does it have ‘bite’? What about the finish? Short or long? One particular concept that helps drinkers judge wine quality is ‘mouthfeel’.

Pop! Culture: Wine Cork Crafts

Meghan Fitzgerald

It is a truth historically demonstrated and universally accepted that the artist often finds inspiration at the bottom of a bottle...however, what if you could find that very same inspiration at the top?

Does Wine Freeze?

Erin O'Reilly - Certified Specialist of Wine

Do you live in a place where the weather map drapes itself in swaths of purple and blue? Where salted roads and snow tires are a necessary part of your mid-winter wine delivery service? If so, it’s time to learn about frozen wine.

Beyond a Tasting Room: The Best (Unexpected) Places to Taste Wine

Meghan Fitzgerald

Where can’t you buy a glass of wine these days? From vending machines to cat cafes, wine is finding its place on the shelf and in the hands of customers not seen in previous years.

Climate Change and the Expansion of Winegrowing Regions

Joel Pérez - Director of Viticulture

Global warming is a constant source of discussion these days. It has permeated every facet of our industry from carbon sequestration in vineyard soils to low weight bottles which require fewer gas emissions to produce. But as our global community attempts to tackle increasing challenges, what does climate change mean for the average consumer?

Wine & Chocolate: The Love Affair You Want to be a Part of

Samantha Sanchez

Gold Medal Wine Club is here to help you make the perfect pairings as you craft your wine and chocolate gift basket for yourself, your girls, or your guy just in time for cupid and his arrow to make his own.

Wines for the Winter

Sienna Serrao

With the temperatures cooling down, lets not kid ourselves, a glass of nice wine by the fire place, while being wrapped in a warm, cozy blanket sounds heavenly!

Your Size Guide to Wine Pours, Glasses, and Bottles

Sienna Serrao

To those arguing if a standard glass of wine is 4 or 5 ounces, or whether a standard bottle has 4, 5 or 6 glasses in it, we are here to clear it all up for you!

Foil Top vs No Top on Wine Bottles

Sienna Serrao

The wines in your shipments that do not have foil tops on the bottles, are perfectly ok. First of all, we want to assure you that this does not mean something is wrong with your wine.

It's Sangria Season!

Sienna Serrao

With the kids all going back to school, weather heating up (a lot), and all the delicious summer fruits in season, it’s the perfect time to treat yourself to a refreshing glass of Sangria!

Happy National Pinot Noir Day!

Seinna Serrao

Who decided, when it was decided, and where it was decided that Pinot Noir Day would fall on August 18th is unknown, but what is known is that this incredible wine grape deserves a day dedicated to the celebration of it!