The fact that wine is a lot about chemistry has probably not escaped anyone. (After all, everything is chemistry.) However, you don’t need to know anything about chemistry to enjoy a wine. But sometimes you
Who has not at some point felt petroleum aroma in a wine, most likely in a riesling? This slightly odd aroma is often associated with older, mature riesling. There has been discussion about where the
Describing wine is, at the same time, very personal and very scientific. What you perceive when you sniff or taste a wine depends on your own previous experiences (and imagination) and how your brain makes
Sometimes the spell check program tells you that the word you have used in a text is “overused” and that you should “consider using another word”. This is often a good observation. A varied choice
Sweet dry wine and the taste police A dry wine should be dry and a sweet wine sweet. That sounds obvious. But considering the amounts of not-so-dry red wines sold in the world today, one
Taste is by definition subjective, but that should not hinder us from using a more objective approach when discussing wine and winnings. What we tend to like varies. Some prefer to drink wine with a
What’s in a word? What is “minerality” in a wine? It is very fashionable nowadays to talk about the minerality of a wine. It is easy to describe a wine as having minerality but it
The fact that wine is a lot about chemistry has probably not escaped anyone. (After all, everything is chemistry.) However, you don’t need to know
Who has not at some point felt petroleum aroma in a wine, most likely in a riesling? This slightly odd aroma is often associated with
Describing wine is, at the same time, very personal and very scientific. What you perceive when you sniff or taste a wine depends on your
Sometimes the spell check program tells you that the word you have used in a text is “overused” and that you should “consider using another
Sweet dry wine and the taste police A dry wine should be dry and a sweet wine sweet. That sounds obvious. But considering the amounts
Taste is by definition subjective, but that should not hinder us from using a more objective approach when discussing wine and winnings. What we tend
What’s in a word? What is “minerality” in a wine? It is very fashionable nowadays to talk about the minerality of a wine. It is
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