“Red or White?” my host asked, offering me a glass of wine at a summer gathering. Within moments, I regretted my choice as I tripped and spilled the glass of zinfandel down the front of my shirt.

Wine is often analyzed by its color. In white wine, the colors can be described as straw-colored, golden, greenish, among others. In red wine, the color can be described as garnet, violet, ruby, burnt ...

With its varying degrees of pink, rosé is as beautiful as it is palatable. The color of this popular summer wine ranges from a very light copper to a dark, almost hot pink. The winemaking method is ...

InvestigationCompared to scent and taste, sight is the sense people pay the least attention to during a wine tasting. Yet the appearance of wine, with its endless palette of shades, provides essential ...

Dan Berger discusses the how color and shape can influence wine consumers and sales. Would you drink blue wine? Or would it depend on the shade - azure, navy, turquoise? Does a wine with flakes of ...

Wine aficionados say that drinking wine involves far more than a simple evaluation of taste. Aroma, temperature and a lovely bottle can all factor into our experience of, say, a Bordeaux. But, what if ...

No matter what the color of grape skin, grape juice is clear, maybe slightly green or gray. So where do all the different colors of wine come from, and how, and why? Wine color comes from skins of ...