Want to Learn About Wine?
🍷 The basics of wine are simple and here are a few tips to get your knowledge started 🍷
Remember to enjoy alcohol responsibly ☺
Areas of Study
- Wine Tasting
- Grape Varieties
- Pairing Food and Wine
- Wine Glasses
- Bottles, Labels and Storage
Learning about wine will touch on many different, interesting areas of study. In learning about wine tasting you will be taught tips like how to measure the acidity of a wine or how to understand the level of tannins in a wine.
Understanding grape varieties will teach you where grapes are grown and what impacts the flavour, such as geographical location and how colour and thickness of the grape skin impact the taste.
It is very quick to learn the basics of pairing food and wine. If high in tannins wine will benefit from being paired with salty food, making the flavour of the wine smoother, richer and less acidic.
You can learn lots of useful tips like this.
To make the best of your wine, using the right glass is important. Learn about the correct shape for the correct types and varieties, how to hold your glass and how much to fill it your glass!
Understanding bottle shapes, how to read bottle labels and also the correct way to store wine will help underpin your knowldege and ensure you get the best out of the wine you buy.
Read some fun facts about wine here!
There are lots of diffrent ways to learn about wine. You can go to wine tasting events, do research online, or even get professional qualitfications in wine which could lead you all the way up to a wine expert. WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) runs industry recognised courses and level 1 of the Wine Award is excellent for beginners, givings a good basic overview in a day.
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