Wine Information

I am planning to make a soup. The main ingredients are clams, tomatoes, fresh orange juice and zest, vermicelli pasta, some onion, etc. The recipe calls for vermouth. I went to the store and found only Extra Dry Vermouth, and I am wondering if this would be too bitter for a tasty soup? If I [...]

For Thanksgiving we are trying a new way of cooking the turkey. We found a recipe that sounded like we would like that calls for us to baste the turkey like every so often with a butter and white wine baste. What does cooking with white wine make the food taste like or what does [...]

My husband and I receive wine as gifts sometimes but we both don’t drink wine. We have recently discovered that we like wine in cooking and I have found many recipes that need white or red wine. I have so many bottles but I don’t know how old they are. How do I know if [...]

I have so many bottles of white wine I don’t know what to do with it all. My husband buys me wine all the time, but I hardly ever drink wine…I think he’s just trying to get me drunk so he can take advantage of me =) Anyways, I love to cook, so I thought [...]

I want to cook pork in white wine and I forgot the white wine at the store. Can I substitute White Zinfandel or will it taste nasty? Thanks! Absolutely yes. I am sure that this would work very well indeed. The flavours of the white zin (predominantly summer fruits with some sweet herbal aromas) would [...]

Is it really better when white wine is cold? Also, can I recork it again? For how long can I store it? I have read that two of the biggest mistakes in drinking wine is that we tend to drink white wine too cold and red wine too warm. You should drink the wine at [...]

Is white vinegar and white wine vingar the same thing and if not can you use white wine vinegar in place of white vinegar? this is for a recipe, it calls for white vinegar but i only have white wine vinegar its for a meatball sauce recipe, I would think it would improve the flavor, [...]

I want to make sage pork chops and my marinade calls for dry white wine. I’m 19 and live alone so I need something that I can legally purchase at the store to use instead. Any ideas? You can get non-alcoholic wine, or theres all kinds of cooking wines that anyone can buy. You could [...]

I’m cooking a tuna casserole which includes 1/2 cup white wine, and before I start shopping for the ingredients can some one tell me how much a good bottle of white whine costs at a supermarket like Kroger or Wal-Mart? You can use broth instead of white wine… but a decent wine look for something [...]

If you are not a wine drinker and a recipe calls for dry white wine what can I substitute with. That depends on what your objection to wine is. If it’s for taste, you will taste almost nothing of the wine in the finished product. If it’s because of the alcohol, use Fré… which can [...]