by Anne | Jul 28, 2023 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Basics, Wine Tasting
If you eat out regularly in restaurants, you’ll know that when you order a bottle of wine the waiter or sommelier asks ‘who would like to taste the wine?’ and then pours a small sample for checking before they serve the other guests. Why does this happen? Sadly it’s...
by Anne | Jul 28, 2023 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
Hope you’ve enjoyed some delicious wine recently. Following on from my video on how to taste wine, I thought I’d go into a little more detail about why it helps to bring air into your mouth whilst you’re tasting and to get the aromas of the wine up...
by Anne | Jul 28, 2023 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
Hope you’ve enjoyed some good wines recently. Did you knock them back or did you spend a little time savouring what was in the glass? Until you know the proper technique for assessing a wine, it can seem a bit ridiculous to bother doing anything but drink it!...
by Anne | Jul 28, 2023 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
One of the most frequent complaints I hear from those new to wine is ‘but Anne, why do wine experts always list so many aromas when they smell a wine? How can a wine possibly smell of all those things when it’s made from grapes?!? All I can smell is...
by Anne | Jul 28, 2023 | Beginners' wine tips, Wine Tasting
In another post, we talked about Jilly Goolden and the seemingly impossible task of emulating the experts’ litany of descriptive words, when all we can smell is in fact ‘wine’. We also looked at why, when wine is simply made from grapes, it smells of...
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