Here's to Your Health: Benefits of Preservative-Free Red Wine

When it comes to healthy living, it's hard to know what's gonna be good or better for you, despite the latest health and wellness trends. Most people know that red wine is the healthier alternative in comparison with white or sparkling wine and it's especially healthier than a high-calorie pint of beer. 

Hunter Valley is an Australian region, best know for the production of some of the best Australia's wines. A general fact is that the vine growing in this valley, located in the Australian state New South Wales, dates back to the 19^th century. With its quite long history growing different sorts of vine, Hunter Valley is a wine region of great importance in the history of wine production in Australia.

Pinot Noir Wine Facts You Need to Know

Pinot Noir is one of the most planted grape variety in the world, and that is associated to the delicious yet sophisticate fruity flavors that these grape variety present. Pinot Noir grapes are grown all over the world, but the best resulting wines are often planted in Burgundy, region of France.

Drinking Pinot Noir wine gives you a pleasure that no other red wine can. It is considered the most versatile wine making ideal to be paired with any type of food. Although Pinot Noir is a red wine, it is light enough to be paired with fish, yet flavored enough to compliment rich tasty foods. If you are interest to know more about of Pinot Noir wine, check out some of the most interesting facts about it:

1. Pinot noir wine is one of the most expensive wine varietal: This due to the fact that Pinot Noir grapes are tough to cultivate. The skin of the grapes are very thin, and when they get rip if the weather conditions get for example, to humid or to moist, the grapes can break down in the vineyard, making unable to be used. Moreover, these grapes if harvested too early, can loose their full richness or ripeness very important for the wine quality.

2. Pinot Noir wine do not improve over time: Unlike other wines that get taste, body and texture improved over the time, Pinot noir wine do not improve after 10 years. Thus, to fully enjoy what this variety can offer, is better to drink this wine before it complete 10 years old.

3. Pinot Noir grapes can also produce Champagnes: Aside from red wine, Pinot Noir grapes can also be used to produce Champagnes. While dry-table wines of Pinot noir are very difficult to grow, sparkling ones are a bit easier.

4. The true meaning of Pinot Noir is “pine black”: pine because the grapes, when bunched up together, look like a pine cone shape, and black because of the dark color of the grapes.

5. Pinot Noir – one of the oldest grapes in the world: Pinot Noir grapes have been around since the Roman times and been existed in the 4th century in the Burgundy region of France.

6. Pinot noir wine is prone to genetic variations: Researches found that this type of wine is disposed to genetic variations, reason why there are over 100 registered Pinot Noir wine clones.