What’s Your Wine? Evaluating with the Nose

A wine’s smell or overall aroma is also called the “nose” of the wine, and this “nose” is the second stage in wine tasting, after evaluating by sight.  The nose is a fascinating organ, capable of differentiating between thousands of unique scents.  This makes it a great tool in evaluating wine, because it is able…

What’s your Wine? A Glossary of Tasting Terms

Wine tasting can range anywhere from the simple to the complex, much like the wine itself.  A lot of knowledge can take you far, but with just a little bit of background information you can start the tasting process and learn as much as you’d like as you go along. Over the next several weeks I will be…