Thoughts on wine

Thoughts on: Wine Education

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This is something I get asked a fair bit about, and although I’m currently studying my Diploma with the WSET I’d like this to be about wine education in general, as I intend to cover those topics in more depth another time. The real questions are, I suppose, what is wine education all about? Is […]

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Thoughts on: Having “Good Taste’ in Wine

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I’d like to venture a potentially controversial opinion: There is no such thing as having bad taste in wine. I’ve said this a few times now and met with mixed reactions, most commonly disbelief but occasionally a little hostility. It’s something I believe to be true, though, and I’ve decided to have a ramble about […]

Blind Tasting

Barcelona Blind Wine Tasting – Part I

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If you’ve come across this post whilst looking for wine tasting options within Barcelona, please have a look at this page here. In my previous post I talked about blind tasting and why I see it as a valuable tool to improve your palate, knowledge of wine and have a good time in the process. I tend […]

Thoughts on wine

Thoughts on: Blind Tasting Wine

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Blind tasting: the act of tasting, analysing and attempting to identify a wine with no prior knowledge of where the wine was produced, who it was produced by, the quality level, the price or anything else that could help define it. This involves evaluating the colour and intensity of the wine; is the slight garnet […]

Practical

Wine Websites: Recommended Reading

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So the first thing I did after reformatting the website was to add another page to it, which could quite reasonably be construed as bad planning in the first place (It was). However, it occurred to me that I now consume a large quantity of wine related media on a daily basis, mainly from slowly […]