 
If you enjoy Brunello di Montalcino but you do not wish to pay the price, try a Rosso di Montalcino. It's from the same area, but it comes from younger vines and it's made in a fruitier style.
In Rioja, Spain, there are three basic levels of quality in a wine based on how long a wine is aged, listed here from the most youthful to the gently aged: Crianza (good), Reserva (better), and Gran Reserva (best).
The Rothschild family, famous for Château Rothschild and other fine French wines, are partners in winemaking ventures in California (Opus One), Chile (Los Vascos), and Portugal (Quinta do Carmo).
On a Portuguese wine label, the term colheita means vintage.
Quinta is an estate or vineyard in Portugal.
The term garrafeira on a Portuguese wine label indicates that the wine has undergone additional aging, though some wine producers use the term to refer to their better bottlings as garrafeira.
In Australia, by law, if the grape variety is listed on the label, the wine must be made from at least 85% of that grape. If two grapes are listed on an Australian wine label, such as Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon, the name that appears first is the dominant grape of the blend.
Bill Lembeck, a wine-loving engineer, calculates that there are about 49 million bubbles in the average bottle of Champagne.
An estate-bottled wine is made, produced, and bottled by the owner of the vineyard.
In Bordeaux, two-thirds of the wine produced is red and one-third is white.
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