Oak Chips Following on from the first in this series, Adding Ingredients to Your Wine – Fruit, this time we’re talking about one of the most popular ingredient additions; oak chips. Often used in commercial winemaking, oak imparts flavours that add maturity, sophistication, and flavour balance that can improve wine significantly. Traditionally aged in wine […]

Every recipe in the SG Wines range has been carefully developed by experts in the field to allow you to create true-to-style, satisfying wines every time. That’s not to say you can’t experiment with different flavour additions to jazz up your wine, however. But why would you want to add ingredients to wine? Well, you […]

In our recent Cooking with White Wine post, we described some of the reasons wine makes an excellent ingredient to certain dishes and how wine’s characteristics complement different foods in different ways. We also included a couple of recipes that included white wine to get you inspired. Now we’re focussing on red wine, which is […]

Have you thought about other ways to enjoy your handcrafted wine? Perhaps you sometimes enjoy it in a spritzer, or as part of a cocktail, or maybe even fortified (see this post for how to fortify your wine). But how about using it in your cooking? Wine is an essential ingredient in many food recipes, […]

What is fortified wine? Put simply, a fortified wine is one that has been strengthened (fortified) by adding spirit to it during, or after fermentation. The spirit increases the wine’s ABV, and stabilises the wine. Doing this during fermentation arrests the fermentation process, leaving residual sugars unfermented, making the finished product slightly sweet. Popular fortified […]

Despite the time and effort that goes into making your delicious homemade wine, giving it as a gift may feel a little stingy! But don’t despair, we’ve come up with some creative ideas to turn your wine gift into a festive phenomenon no one will turn their nose up at. 1. Spruce up your wine […]