Learning About Wine

Welcome to Vine to Wine I’m your host Linda Moran. If you’re becoming more interested in wine, I’d recommend reading about it as well as tasting it. The understanding you gain, helps you to sharpen your tasting palette, because you understand more about what you’re looking for in your glass of wine.

The topic of wine is vast and the number of places to gather information is astounding. But to begin with I think that you need to narrow it down to what interests you and what you think would be the most interesting way to learn about it. I recommend you read about a wine that you’ve enjoyed. It’s also pretty easy to do an internet search to find the wine and then follow the questions that arise from there. For example – you really like Syrah. So go to the internet research find a Syrah that you’ve tasted. Hopefully this would lead you to ask - Where did Syrah originally come from? Is it made differently in different parts of the world? Things like that. Even if you don’t consider yourself a beginner, find a good book that’s written for beginning wine tasters. I think it will surprise you just how much you learn or - just how much you only thought you knew. It’s very easy to be stuck with a one dimensional palette just because you aren’t challenging yourself to understand more about the topic of wine. The best thing about this research is that the wine you’re drinking will actually become more interesting to you - and you will develop a more discerning palette. And thanks for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.