Organizing A Serious Winetasting Group

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran. Once you get serious about learning more about wine you’ll want to do more serious wine tasting. And it can get a bit expensive. So I suggest you get a group together once a month who share your interest. Today we’re going to discuss getting serious when learning about wine.

When you determine wine is more than a casual beverage, you will want to take a more academic approach to it. A tasting group can be a great way to do that. And although that sounds logical - let me caution you – if you are intending to be serious then take care to make this clear to those you invite to join you. Structure is good in this situation. I recommend everyone in the group, whether novice or experienced taster, reads the same beginning wine tasting book. This will make certain that you are all operating from the same frame of reference when you describe and evaluate wines. Once the books have been read, meet to agree upon a series of topics. Make the topics useful and directed to wines that are readily available. Determine how you will research the topics and who will be responsible for each month’s wines to accompany the research. Meet in a place free of distraction, with good light and most of all have good glassware - all of those things are necessary to really learn something valuable. Start and end your meeting on time. This will keep the meeting credible and the time will be well spent. It will be fun in the end, and you will be rewarded – with a much better understanding of wine. And thanks for joining me on today’s Vine to Wine.