Brix 33

Fine WIne & Bistro New Port Richey FL

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Health Benefits Of Drinking Wine

Next time you need to unwind don’t opt for the liquor cabinet but rather the wine cellar. Recent studies prove that there are heath benefits for moderate wine consumption.

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How To Properly Store Wine

Knowing how to properly store wine can help you to truly enjoy all that wine has to offer. Use this helpful guide to learn more about this process.

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Great Wine and Food Pairings

View this helpful guide listing some of the common wine and food pairings. To taste these wines, visit Brix33 Fine Wines and Bistro in New Port Richey FL.

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Wine in Outer Space | Brix 33 in New Port Richey FL

Most people don't realize just how important wine has been in our culture. Wine has gone where most beverages only dream to go...outer space. Read more about this incredible journey through space and wine.

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9 Great Resources For Wine Fanatics

Brix 33 | Restaurant & wine bar in New Port Richey, FL has provided a list of the 9 best resources for wine fanatics. Bookmark and be sure to visit our blog regularly for more valuable wine information.

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Using This Wine Tasting Workout To Become A Fine Wine Connoisseur

Want to become a fine wine connoisseur? Read our other articles and use that information to practice using our fine wine tasting workout.

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How To Distinguish What Type Of Wine You Are Drinking

Use this comprehensive wine tasting guide and learn about the basic types of wine out there.

Are you interested in becoming a fine wine connoisseur? Then read this guide on fine wine tasting, and distinguishing between varietal wines.

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How a Grape’s Growing Conditions Affect Wine

You may be surprised to know that a grape’s growing & picking conditions effect the characteristics of the grape. By this I mean that conditions such as climate, humidity, soil, and altitude all have effects on how the grape comes out. But not only this, it is known that picking conditions also have effects on the grape. These conditions are not as influential as the growing conditions, but they are worth mentioning.

For example, sparkling wines require the grape to be picked before it reaches peak ripeness. This is because sparkling wines require higher acidity, and grapes contain more acid prior to being ripe. One big debate in the wine-making industry is the usage of machines vs. humans when it comes to picking grapes. There are many benefits to using machines, mainly cost efficiency for the wine-makers. But there are some qualities that can’t be detected by machines, which is where humans come in.

Some grapes can have broken skins that cause disease to spread throughout the entire bundle of grapes. This is why human intuition is important, because a diseased bundle of grapes can ruin a large amount of wine. Strangely enough there is a type of wine that can only be made with diseased grapes, this is typically dessert wine. You know that fuzzy grey stuff you see growing on strawberries? Well a certain form of that can grow on grapes, and these bundles are referred to ‘botrytis bunches’.

Since machines can’t detect diseased grape bunches, humans can seek out these bundles for dessert wines. Growing conditions are important in this case because depending on the climate, this fungus can either be good or bad. If the climate is generally dryer, then when this fungus forms it causes the grape to dry out. This results in a more concentrated grape. But if it is more humid, this fungus can cause rot and disease.

It is no doubt that growing and picking conditions have a strong influence on grapes and wine. Picking during the daytime and nighttime result in different sugar levels. Picking during a rain results in a watery grape. Without this phenomenon, we would not have the wide variety of wines that we do. If you are interested in tasting the different wines caused by this, visit Brix 33 in New Port Richey, FL for wine tasting events every week.

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10 More Things You Didn’t Know About Wine

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10) One of the most expensive bottle of wine thus far was a bottle of 1875 Chateau Margaux that was owned by Thomas Jefferson. The man that owned it dropped it and was paid $225,000 by the insurance company.

9) Another expensive bottle of wine was an 1869 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, which sold for $230,692 at an auction in Hong Kong.

8) California is in fourth place in terms of wine production in the world, led by France, Italy, and Spain.

7) Women are generally better wine-tasters than men because their sense of smell is better than men.

6) A ton of grapes can make about 720 bottles of wine, so one bottle of wine uses about 2.75 pounds of grapes.

5) One study showed that when French music was played in a wine store, more French wine was sold. When German music was played, more German wine was sold.

4) There is a novel you can read called ‘Wine to Water’ by Doc Hendley. It is about his organization in Africa that aims to bring clean drinking water to villages in need. He himself was a raging alcoholic from North Carolina that one day had a wake-up call and moved to Africa.

3) Some stories suggest that toasting was invented as a way to prevent poisoning. The clinking of glasses would splash each wine in to the other cup.

2) Grape juice mix was sold with a warning label during prohibition times. The warning stated that the buy should not take the liquid and place it in a jug for 20 days because it will become alcohol.

1) One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous stories is about a wine-tasting event where one man lures a friend into a trap with wine. This is said to be based on an actual event involving Lieutenant Robert Massie back in 1817.

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Five Historical Wine Facts You Have To Read

Wine has a very rich history and has played an important role in the development of culture, trade, and religion. Entire civilizations created gods for wine and it was used to define culture for many. We wanted to share with you a list of our favorite historical facts about wine!

1) The world's oldest bottle of wine was found in Germany in a Roman grave. It dates back to 325 A.D. and it's contents were still preserved inside the bottle. The Romans preserved this bottle by "floating" olive oil on top of the wine.

2) The Neolithic period is credited with being the first time in history that wine was purposefully made. In the Eastern region near Egypt, communities were permanent. This allows the people to have a stable food source and they experimented with food processing. Wine, Beer, and Bread are three things they produced. Read this article to learn more.

3) In 1863 there were grape vines that are native to America planted in the English Botanical Gardens. The vines contained root louse that killed nearly all of the grapevines in Europe! The American plants had developed an immunity to the louse, which is why they survived.

4) United States per-capita consumption of wine is much less than most other countries in the West, but it is on track to become the number one consumer of wine by 2020.

5) Wine has many benefits. It preserves grapes, produces alcohol, provides carbs, prevents sickness, and prevents tooth decay.

Brix 33 is a restaurant in New Port Richey FL serving fine wines & gourmet food. Visit us today at www.Brix33.com

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Brix33 Restaurant and Wine Bistro

8351 FL-54 Unit 109

New Port Richey, FL 34655

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Restaurant New Port Richey Florida | Wine Tasting

Wine Bistro | Dining in New Port Richey Florida

Brix 33 was built on the combined talents and efforts of 3 people who are passionate about cooking outrageously good food and selling outstanding wines. Brix 33 features a restaurant, retail wine store and a wine bar all under one roof. Brix 33's passion for excellence is evident when you walk in the door and see the comfortable and relaxed environment that has been created for our guests to enjoy our food creations and fine wines.

The wine store features a collection of approximately 500 wine labels and will continue to grow as we learn more about our guest's tastes in wine. Our wine experts are available to help you choose a wine from our inventory of domestic and import wines. If we do not have your favorite wine, we will be happy to see if we can source the wine for you from our distributors.

The wine bar at Brix 33 features approximately 50 wines by the glass and 30 craft beers. Our guests have the option of purchasing bottles of wine from the restaurant wine list or from the wine store. For a $10.00 per bottle corkage, guests may enjoy a bottle from our wine store with their meal.

In addition to the wines available in the wine store and behind the bar, Brix 33 also has 4 Wine Station wine dispensing machines. Three of the Wine Stations feature selections of wines from the wine store and the selections are rotated regularly. The fourth Wine Station is set up with some “treat” wines that are typically highly allocated wines and difficult to get. These machines are available for anyone to use after purchasing a wine card that is preloaded with a specified amount of money and then used solely for the Wine Stations.

Brix 33 is offering the best in fresh ingredient, freshly prepared food in the area. Some of our guest favorites are the pan seared Sea Bass, the Wine Infused Cappellini and the Mediterranean Flatbread. The restaurant offers our very popular Blackboard Specials every week to highlight seasonally available products offered in delicious preparations. These specials are announced every week on Facebook and through our weekly newsletters. Click here to sign up for our newsletter.

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A Beginners Guide to Decanting | Brix33.com

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Date: 12/28/2016

One very important topic in fine wine that is commonly forgotten is the topic of decanting. While it is a term that you have probably heard, there is a good chance that you don’t actually understand the purpose and process behind this. Understanding this will help you understand wine even better, and you can even use this information to impress your friends.

So for starters, what do you think the definition of decanting is? If you said to let to let something sit and breathe (a common misconception), you guessed wrong. The actual definition of decanting is “to gradually pour a liquid from one container into another, especially without disturbing the sediment”. With this in mind, letting wine sit in a decanter is not decanting the wine…pouring the wine in to the decanter is decanting. The primary goal is to remove sediment and particles from the wine.

In order to accomplish this goal, you should begin by placing the bottle upright for at least 24 hours to allow the particles to settle to the bottom. Once this is complete you should remove the stopper/cork and wipe the neck. With a bright light shining in to the bottle (so you can see the sediment), take your bottle and decanter and begin pouring your wine SLOWLY in to the decanter. The goal here is to pour the clean wine in to the decanter and leave the sediment in the bottle once you’re finished.

Lastly, you can choose to let the wine sit and aerate for an amount of time, however this is not required. It takes experience in wine tasting to know which wines to decant and which ones not to decant. Typically the older the wine, the less you let it aerate. This is because you will miss the ‘opening up’ of the wine, which is something you want to experience. Remember this, when you begin pouring wine out of a bottle, you are exposing it to air for the first time since it was bottled. When it comes in contact with the air, it transforms quickly. You will want to experience this for yourself, so come down to Brix33 in New Port Richey FL for our weekly fine wine tastings!

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Understanding the Aromas & Bouquets of Fine Wines | Brix 33 Fine Wine Tastings in New Port Richey FL

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In our last article we briefly described the process of tasting fine wines. The first step is to test the scent of the wine, so we will elaborate on this topic today. The first thing you should be aware of is the difference between a wine’s aroma and its bouquet. This difference is similar to the difference between tone and pitch in terms of music. Tone is a measure of the pitch of a note over time, and you cannot measure tone until you have listened to the note for a certain amount of time.

An aroma is the scent given off by the combination of ingredients in the wine. Aromas are generally only used to describe grape-based wines, however this is not always the case. This term is also generally used to describe young wines that have not yet developed a bouquet.

Once a wine has aged properly and the process has been given the proper amount of time, new scents will begin to blend in with the wine. This depends on how the wine was made. For example if the wine is stored in an oak container, it will begin to develop an oak scent. A bouquet is best thought of as a term used to describe aroma, as well as the scents gained through the aging process.

Before you can be an expert at smelling wine, you must learn how to detect certain aromas to determine the different compounds that make up the wine. For example, a grassy or plant-type scent indicates the presence of Methoxypyrazines in the wine, which tend to be undesirable.

Also if you are able to detect a moldy or wet newspaper scent, then you can infer that the wine was not corked properly and should be avoided. This indicates that the wine is low quality and generally synthetic as well, because if it has a plastic or screw-on cork then those chemicals from the cap will blend in to the wine.

Eventually we will delve even deeper in to this topic so that you can learn what each individual scent truly indicates. Begin learning more about this topic and be sure to check back each week and learn more about understanding fine wines! If you are in the Florida area, come by Brixx 33 for fine wine tastings every Wednesday night in New Port Richey FL. 

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Using these general guidelines will allow you to get started with fine wine tasting, and we encourage you to go out and try as many wines as you can. Don’t forget to follow the guidelines we mention. Start by smelling the wine and focusing all of your attention on this so that your taste buds are prepared to taste it. Then view the label to learn more about the wine’s history. Finally taste the wine and focus on the balance, harmony, and complexity. If you live in Florida and want to attend fine wine tastings, Brix33 offers countless fine wines and fine wine tastings every Wednesday evening. Come by and visit us in New Port Richey Florida.

Before you actually take a sip when you are tasting wine, the first thing you should do is give it a sniff. The scent given off by wines can tell you everything you need to know before you even taste it. There are many reasons for smelling wine before tasting it, but it really comes down to one thing. Try plugging your nose and eating something. Your sense of taste will not function as well if you do not stimulate your senses through smell. While smelling, you should close your eyes and try and focus solely on the smell. When you do this you will see why it is so important. The scent tells you the types of ingredients used in making the wine, how the wine was stored, and any flaws the wine may possess.

As you gain experience with smelling wines and learning about them, your sense of wine-smelling will get more accurate and you will be able to pick up on finer details. This is why it is good to go tastings with experts, because they can explain these details to you and give you better information than you could get on your own. For example, if the wine smells moldy and dank, it probably means the wine was corked using a plastic or screw-top cork, which is not a good thing.

The label on a wine will tell you what the history behind the wine is. Typically you should look for the brand name, the region it was made in, the primary ingredient used (red grapes, peaches, etc), the year, and the alcohol percentage. There will not always be a brand name, but if there is it will let you know who is responsible for producing the wine. The region is where the wine was made in, which give you an idea of the quality. Wines made in places like California or Italy will be higher quality since they are likely created at vineyards with fresh and natural ingredients. The ingredients will explain the type of wine you are drinking and what to expect in terms of flavor. The year the wine was created is very important when you are tasting high-value wines because of the effort that goes in to producing, storing, and maintaining the wine. And finally, the alcohol percentage. This is very important because it tells you how the wine was made. For example, higher percentage wines are generally made from ripe grapes and have more fruit-forward flavors.

Once you understand this, the last step is actually tasting the wine. Begin by taking a sip, and focus on the flavor proportions. Is it too sweet or too sour? This means it is not balanced and is not high-quality. After this you want to see if the wine is harmonious. This means that the ingredients go together well. To understand this, think about pizza sauce. It can have a nice balance between sugar and salt, but that doesn’t mean those go together well. The complexity is also an important factor, and it tells you the amount of effort and quality-work was put in to making the wine. Does the wine have a variety of flavors or a different aftertaste? This is not an accident, and fine wine generally has some level of complexity. Finally you review all of these factors to determine if the wine is a complete wine? This means that it is a balanced, harmonious, and complex wine.

Without understanding the guidelines to fine wine tasting, you will not be able to fully appreciate the various flavors and smells attributed to fine wines. Just like anything else, the more you learn about a topic, the more you can appreciate the pleasures it provides. Fine wine has many quirks that you should focus on when you are tasting it, such as scent, flavor, color, and background information about the wine.

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