What’s Your Wine? Evaluating with the Eyes

Without even taking a sniff or sip of wine, we can get an overall idea about what we are about to enjoy.  The first step in the tasting process is to look at the wine in our glass in order to evaluate its appearance.  The color can give you hints about the approximate age, what…

What’s Your Wine? A Brief History

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…

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…