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…
At its most basic, wine can be described as the “juice from fermented grapes…and usually having an alcoholic content of 14 percent or less.” But the definition doesn’t do well to describe the many complexities of a tantalizing wine, nor the rich history of the origin of wine-making. Evidence of early wine-making reaches back to…
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…