09/21/05 Learning to like wine

Welcome to Vine to Wine this is your host Linda Moran and today we are discussing "learning to like wine". Interestingly enough I recognize that for most people they have acquired a taste for most of the things in their lives. I, for one, believe that I am still acquiring tastes for many things. So, when I heard someone mention that they were learning to like wine, I had to ask just what that meant. Well of course, it was simple - the person liked wine they were simply learning to appreciate it in all of its varying types and styles. And I liked the idea of learning to like wine. It is fun and interesting. As I spoke with this person we exchanged the titles of our favorite wine books and publications and I thanked him for his insights. One of the interesting ways that he is learning to like wine is to have a formal tasting with three other friends at which time they taste their wine from black glasses so that they don't know anything about how it looks. They smell it and taste it and evaluate it without looking at it first. He claims that by not only blind tasting in the sense that he doesn't know what the wine is or how much it costs he also has no idea what it looks like and he and his friends have often mistaken a lighter red wine and thought it most certainly had to have been white. Although, I have heard of this tasting technique, I have never experienced it myself. But now, I am thinking I will spend some more time learning to like wine in a whole new way. And thanks for joining me on today's Vine to Wine.