IntoWine recently sat down with Lionheart Wines Founder Leon Glover to discuss his foray into winemaking, his focus on food friendly wines, and his nascent wine brand, Lionheart Wines. A wine collector for 21 years, he completed the Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Diploma certification in 2008 (AIWS) with plans to enter the Master of Wine program in the next couple of years in an effort to further his wine knowledge and help train his palate for winemaking. He has been a judge at several wine competitions such as the Pinot Noir Shootout, Cabernet Sauvignon Shootout and looks for more wine judging opportunities in the future. Merging his professional career in high tech and entrepreneurship, his current technology project is a new search engine focused on wine and wine & food pairing recommendations. In 2006, Leon and his wife, Jennifer, started Lionheart Wines with the idea of producing premium quality yet affordable food-friendly wines to be shared with friends and family.

Profile of Riedel Glas Austria One of the most influential companies in the world of wine has never produced wine at all. In fact, Riedel Glas Austria got its start several centuries ago, refining glassware and making window panes. Today, Riedel is widely considered to have forever changed the way the world tastes wine.

Wine and food festivals are pretty much a dime a dozen, which is not to say they aren’t a great way to discover new wines and food purveyors, run into friends and make a great day of it. But we’ve been there and have done that and there tends to be little variation on that theme. The Earth Day Food...

At some point in your wine collecting "career," you will probably begin to dream of owning a true wine cellar, a walk-in area of your home where your entire collection rests on matching racks, waiting for you to step inside and choose a bottle. Inspired by the gorgeous photographs of celebrity wine cellars, you might wonder if you should talk with a wine cellar expert about designing a cellar in your own home.

Once you have started collecting wine, you need to find a place to store all those bottles. For some collectors, a wine cooler or wine refrigerator is a good solution. For many wine enthusiasts, however, the collection quickly outgrows the wine cooler unit. Purchasing wine racks and creating a wine cellar or wine storage area is the logical next step.

There comes a point in almost every wine lover's life at which wine enjoyment turns into wine collecting. It might happen when you're at a wine festival or winery tour and discover a wine so wonderful that you take the plunge and bring home a case. Or, perhaps a friend who is moving out of town brings you several bottles of wine, saying, "I can't take these with me, so I want you to enjoy them." Either way, your collecting days have begun.

Picture this: you've just made your first foray into the wonderful world of wine buying. You remember reading somewhere that too much heat is really bad for wine, so you unload your car as quickly as possible. As you set the last case down, you realize that you haven't decided exactly where you will put all of the bottles. Now that the wine is actually in your home, it's time to make some wine storage choices.

Be they Ghostbusters, Oscar Winners, Porn Stars, Bond Girls, Icons, Divas, Policemen, Material Girls, Rock'n'Roll Hall of Famers, Race Car Drivers, Golfers, Quarterbacks, or Cy Young Winners, they all have one common bond: Winemaker. Celebrity winemakers come in many varieties with some being oenophiles dedicated to their pursuit of fine winemaking (Sam Neill, Tom Seaver, Terry Hoage) while others are seemingly slapping their brand on yet another product (KISS, Barry Manilow, Elvis). In the interest of celebrity obsession, we combed the internet to bring you the following list of rock stars, actors, and athletes turned winemaker.

Riesling is revered the world over for its versatility. The aromatic white wine grape can be made in various styles – often with a focus on sweetness levels. The possible pairings with food are wide-ranging, thus so are the ways Riesling can be made. It is because of these possibilities that I love making Riesling.

In our discussion of white wine glasses , we talked about wine glass essentials, including shape, size, color, materials and manufacture. Of course, all of this information also applies to red wine glasses. Your choices range from inexpensive, machine-made wine glasses to mouth-blown glasses made from the finest lead crystal. Some red wine glasses have stems, while others are stemless.