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Wine 101
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Six short chapters on tasting, grapes, place and winemaking, then three articles that carry the vocabulary further.
New to wine 57 min 9 steps About How to Taste
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Start here: the five-step method and the vocabulary every later step uses.
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With the method in hand, use structure rather than color to tell ten red grapes apart.
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The same structural approach applied to six white grapes, including the Chardonnay conversation.
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Having met the grapes, see why the same grape tastes different in two places.
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After place comes the cellar: eight techniques and how to read a back label.
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The Regions, and Your First Blind Flight
Put grapes, place and technique together across sixteen regions, then taste four wines blind.
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Go past the tasting sheet into the acids themselves: tartaric and malic as the principal acids of wine, and malolactic fermentation turning sharper malic into softer lactic.
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Pair acidity with the other half of red wine structure: where tannins come from and the drying feel they give in the mouth.
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Old World vs. New World Wine: Style, Philosophy, and What It Means for Your Glass
Close by setting the chapters against the Old World and New World split: Old World restraint and structure, New World generosity and ripe fruit.
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