Welcome to Winacea and your personal wine experience!
Winacea’s goal is to share practical wine information with you. Information to help you make better wine choices and have better wine experiences in your life. From selecting the perfect wine to give as a holiday gift, a hostess gift, or a wedding gift or choosing the perfect bottle from the wine list at a restaurant to pair deliciously with everyone’s entrée. Winacea will teach you that experiencing wine is multidimensional, easily obtainable, and a true pleasure. There are many ways to include these experiences in your everyday life. Pop open the bubbly, and let’s start celebrating the small things in life!
Vin Santo vs Vinsanto
Most people think of Italy when they hear “vin santo“, but what about when you’re making your way through Santorini’s labyrinth of tourist shops looking at Greek wine bottles labeled vinsanto. What’s the difference? History has the answer. Apparently in 1203 Santorini … Continue reading
What is Winacea?
Sounds like panacea, but has everything to do with wine.
n: wine incarnate, including the fermentation, aging and consumption (The winacea of Cabernet Sauvignon is quite complex and delicate.)
n: ancestry of wine (The winacea of mead traces back to ancient times.)
n: a remedy for stress and fun-haters (I really need a winacea after the day I had.)
adj: splendor of wine unrelenting (That dinner party was winaceus!)
n: supernatural connection between the grape vine and the human species (I had a winacea when I tasted Petrus.)
v: to understand the allure of wine through experiences (Traveling to distant wine regions is an effective way to winacea.)