Wine of the Week: 2011 Nerocapitano Frappato
Region: IGT Sicilia, Italy
Price: $25

If you have not yet discovered Frappato, a Sicilian red grape, which makes the most deliciously refreshing light bodied red wines, now is your chance. 

Icewine, also known as Ice Wine or Eiswein, is a very special, very sweet wine. Do you know how Icewine is made?

Wine: M Côté Mas St. Hilaire Crémant de Limoux Rosé NV Brut
Region: Languedoc, France
Price: $17.95

Spring has arrived, so what better way to relax than with a glass of something bubbly, like this delicious and refreshing sparkling wine from Limoux in France’s Languedoc region.

Barrique is a wine word that most of you will probably already be familiar with. The word 'barrique' means barrel, but not just any type of barrel. Do you know specifically what a barrique is?

Wine of the Week: 2011 Louis Jadot Steel Chardonnay
Region: Burgundy, France
Price: $18 

Top white Burgundy from the Grand Cru and Premier Cru vineyard sites is highly prized, sought after and scarce, hence outside the reach of most wine drinkers. 

En Primeur is an April wine word that essentially refers to how the new vintage of Bordeaux is traded. Do you know what it means?

Sparkling wine is already a festive pour for a party, but here's an idea for making it a little more special: serve homemade fruit liqueur lollipops for guests to stir into their bubbly. It's an elegant, surprising take on the usual champagne cocktail.

With this being Cocktail and Happy Hour week at The Kitchn, I simply could not let the week go by without a shout out for Lambrusco, the crisp, refreshing and deliciously frothy sparkling red wine from Emilia Romagna in Italy. I particularly like and recommend the 2011 Cavicchioli ‘Vigna del Cristo’ Secco ($16), which is perfect for any happy hour gathering, especially now, as Lambrusco is suddenly trendy again.

I just returned from my first trip to Lebanon, where I spent a week eating and drinking all over the country. Whether in a restaurant or someone's home, no matter where I stopped for a drink, I was always offered a bowl or two of mixed nuts. This, I learned, was no coincidence.

Wine of the Week: 2011 Chêne Bleu Rosé
Region: Provence, France
Price: $28

Much like red or white wine, all rosé wines are not created equally. Unfortunately too often they are lumped together as ‘not serious’ and best enjoyed within a year of being bottled. Not so with the rosé wines from Chêne Bleu, a wine producer in the south of France.