Here are a couple of useful wine articles written by Paul Ippolito especially for those starting out learning about wine.
Wine Tasting
A Bouquet Of Fancy Aroma Prose
The process of and language of wine tasting and writing evokes a variety of responses from people ranging from confusion, uncertainty to utter disbelief as to how and why a wine smells and tastes a certain way and even more so the words used to describe these. Finding the words to describe a wine is quite hard work! Really, it is. The reality is that tasting and describing wine is not as simple a task as it seems and indeed involves challenges to the all of the human senses. What we see, smell and taste is hard to put into words without some basic education and a fair bit of practice. What I want to do in this article is to try and demystify wine tasting for you. Then, hopefully and not before too long, you will be well on the way to better sniffing and tasting wine, complete with a host of new fancy wine words to impress your friends.
Now tell me you didn’t feel a warm and fuzzy stirring sensation the last time you wandered into a wine cellar. Tell me you weren’t seduced by the ambience of the collected bottles, all carefully laid down, perfectly stacked in wooden racks, accentuated by subtle lighting and surrounded by the serenity and peacefulness of all that wine. Let’s face it, the collector instinct is in all of us.So now that we have acknowledged the will to collect might be there within you, let’s see how to turn this into action so that you can create a bit of romance and ambience of your own.Let me take you on a journey that will tell you what is required to collect and cellar wine properly, a voyage that will probably result in you being hooked for life on the joys of cellaring (and drinking) good Australian wine.
