Hot Topics

Each newsletter that accompanies our monthly wine selections includes a Hot Topic about some wine issue that is currently relevant. We’ve listed them here for your easy reference. If you have a question that is not covered here, you can email at celebrate@celebratonswineclub.com. You just might find your answers published here as a new Hot Topic!

• Love and Wine
• Little Known Wine Tidbits
• Did You Know? Interesting Facts About Wine
• Additional Uses for Left-Over Wine
• What To Do With Left-Over Wine
• Wine and the Weather
• Wine’s Great Future
• Tips to Help You Look Like a Wine Snob
• January 2018 Hot Topic of the Month
• Why So Many Winery Dogs
• Francois and Barbe-Nicole
• A Bit of Champagne History
• Champagne or Sparkling Wine
• What’s in a Name? Labels
• Port Wine – The Scoop!
• Wine Closures
• What Is an AVA & What Is It For?
• What’s in a Cork?
• Getting to Our Best Place
• A Chef’s Passion
• Hot Topic of the Month – December 2016
• Where Is the Common Ground?
• To Give or Not to Give, That is the Question
• Laughable Laws and Liquor
• Who Invented Wine?
• How Wine Classification Systems Help
• London Bridge Is Falling Down
• Fake Wine, Here to Stay?
• The Minerality Debate
• We Are Cool!
• Tech Innovation Strikes Celebrations Wine Club!
• The Pope and the Chalice
• Chilling Out With Red Wine
• The Weather as Grape Farmers See It
• Chinese Wines Coming to Your Neighborhood Store
• Glass Shape and the Taste of Wine
• Learning to Love Arsenic
• Sleeping Cork Giant Awakens
• Wine Has New Competition
• Red Wine for Your Valentine
• Champagne Glasses: Out With the Old, In With the New
• Prosecco, The World’s Favorite Sparkler
• Wine Writers Raging Over Change
• Light-Strike, Another Wine Spoiler
• Owning a Vineyard Not a Requisite for Making Fine Wine
• Celebrating Café Life
• Why Are Americans Drinking More Wine?
• Do You Need a Coravin?
• The Purpose of Foil at the Top of a Wine Bottle
• Down to Business
• The New California Wine
• Wine is Love
• The Futility and Final Repeal of Prohibition
• Wine Buying Habits of 2013
• Wine 101: Wine Fun Facts To Impress
• A Wine Lover’s Guide To Europe
• Basic Wine Guide For Beginners
• Pagan Roots of the Christmas Tree

• Is This Wine Eco Friendly or Not?
• Random Tasting But Purposeful Purchases
• Why Attend a Wine Tasting?
• How Did Grenache Get to the Island of Sardegna?
• Considerations for a Wine Gift
• From Barrel to Bottle
• Are Primitivo and Zinfandel Related?
• Robert Parker Vacates the Throne
• Why Attend a Wine Tasting If I Know What I Like?
• Death of the Dinner Party
• Prosecco: The Other Bubbly
• New Year & New Business
• The Door Opens to Women Winemakers
• Choosing Thanksgiving Wine
• Discovering Tequila
• Developing Preferences for Certain Wine Styles
• MikesHomeMadeFoods.com
• The Noble Thirst for Good Wine
• The Best of Its Kind
• Look at Mark Zuckerberg
• Wine, A Love Story
• Grapes in Our Glasses and on Our Faces
• Vintage Angst
• New White Wine Makes a Splash
• Disclosing the Ingredients in Wine
• Wine, Beer, & Spirits Sales Up 6%
• Tracking Your Package
• Prognosis for 2011: Increase in Fine Wine Consumption
• Off the Beaten Path With Ralph Modena
• Americans Learning to Love Wine
• Wineries Without Glitz
• Reducing, Reusing, & Recycling Glass
• Vintage Report 2010
• Deliciously Unnatural Wine
• The Thanksgiving Menu: Simply Delicious
• Ask the Wine Witch Who Tells the Truth As She Sees It
• White Granite Dreams
• Go Ahead, Chill a Red Wine
• Bordeaux, My Father’s Wine
• OMG! Paris Hilton Calls Prosecco Sexy
• What Is Cassis and Why Should We Care?
• Pinot in the Spotlight
• For Grapevine Pests, The Globe Is a Village
• Happy Valentine’s Day
• Happy New Year With Orange Wine
• The Future Is Here
• Let’s Please Have a Party!


• The Perfect Thanksgiving Beverage – According to the Forefathers
• Wine Descriptions: Back to Basics
• What Wines Do the Obama’s Drink?
• Chocolate & Wine for Dessert
• The Use and Abuse of SO2
• A Test Will Follow
• Summertime Eating Outdoors
• Unnatural Corks
• Wine Bottle Logic
• Decanting Wine: The Science, The Myth and The Realty