Wine judging has been a bit of a mystery topic to me topic, but thanks to the Wine Judging Made Simple seminar at Sunday's 36th Annual Virginia Wine Festival, I now have a great understanding of the process! Walter Rachele, a graduate of the American Wine Society Wine Judge Training Program and judge in their commercial [...]
Wine contains thousands of scents and only a handful of tastes so aromas play a big part in wine tasting. The Aromas of Wine workshop at the fourth annual Wine Bloggers Conference taught us the facts behind how we get aroma from a wine and how we to describe aromas and use them in tastings. [...]
As as wine lover, I enjoy doing wine tastings and learning more to 'hone my palette.' Whatever that means!?! ;) I have two great wine tasting kits at home I've often used on my own and with friends to do wine tastings. They're full of scents and we experiment to see what smell and taste [...]
Doing some reading on Bordeaux wines (even after spending several days there last April, there's still much to digest) and thought I'd share with you one of my great wine resources, The Concise World Atlas of Wine. Now in its sixth edition (published in September 2007), this publication first came out 36 years ago in 1971. [...]
Last month I was reading an issue of Food & Wine magazine at my girlfriend's house and found this great  "Find Your Wine Style" quiz. It's great if you're new to wine or looking to try something new! Which do you drink? Whole Milk - Go for richer, more full-bodied wines - California Chardonnay for [...]