How To Taste Wine

GRAB A GLASS AND TASTE ALONG!!! (upvote this video if it helps you!) The wine tasting method is a simple process that will help you identify specific characteristics of a wine while tasting it. The tasting method splits a wine tasting up into 4 sections based on four of the five physical senses we use to experience wine.
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I have watched this a few times and keep getting something new to inform my palate. Thanks for the great content! "I'd drink the crap out of it" - ultimately the most important factor.

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You are positively delightful! Tasting wine is such a magical experience and you teach by including all the magic. Superlative job! See you next time.

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Love how you explained the structures of wine

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Great video. And I've tasted the 2014 Elk Cove... very nice. Their vineyard designates are very nice too. Especially like Mt. Richmond.

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I know I'm really late to this party, but we (4 of us) watched this video and had a blast with you .... Thanks!

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You’re never too late. Thanks for tasting with me!

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Cheers for this, just started to drink a bit more often so want to improve my knowledge on wine tasting.

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Funny thing is, as you started to describe the wine, I said to myself, "Elk Cove." Then you focused in on the bottle and, SCORE! BTW, I work in wine, and love it. Thanks for showing people who don't know a lot about wine the specifics. It's an amazing process to taste and enjoy.

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@Gary Barlow I know there is a fair amount of nonsense to this but I'm enjoying getting even more out of the wine than drinking it. That's not so wrong is it?

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You’re very welcome

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[@Winefolly]

Thank you!!! Enjoy the adventure! -Madeline

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Practical & effective tips to wine tasting !

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"I'd drink the crap out of it" lol. From your assessment, I would too.

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Thanks for the video! I am sipping Apothic Crush. I don't really like it much but this video helped me understand it better.

[@dustinplatt1481]

The winemaker and processes have a lot to do with it... even from year to year, and vat to vat, smaller producer wines will be different.

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I LOVE this video - thanks!

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I had a bottle of Nicole Chanrion Domaine de la Voute des Crozes Cote de Brouilly 2018 that had a huge aroma of raspberry sauce that you would put on ice cream. That was the primary smell and literally the primary. No secondary, no tertiary, all I got was that raspberry sauce. I was kind of impressed that I could pick out a sense out of the wine as I normally have somewhat of struggle time picking out senses in red wine. White wine aromas and flavors are easier, jalapeño and cilantro aromas in most New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, Peach, Granny Smith apple, honey from those honey stick, and a weird smell of parmesan cheese with my Dr.Heidemanns 2018 Splätese Riesling.

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When I take a whiff of my wine, I just smell wine. Never fruits, vegetables, vanilla, etc.

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Sign of a true alcoholic!

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[@Winefolly]

You might have a sensitive sense of smell, try pulling the glass farther away from your nose until you can start to distinguish flavors. This is actually one of the hardest processes of learning how to taste wine. Keep it up!

[@daveclinton4945]

Drink the same wine for a period of time, like 2 weeks, so that your nose and tongue are used to it. Then try a totally different wine and see how it contrasts. Then you may begin detecting variances such as sweetness, fruitiness, oakiness, tannins, etc. I've learned the most about tasting by tasting a whole lot of wine. It takes time!

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@@daveclinton4945 two weeks lol Dave goes hard on that wine hell yeah brother !

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Glad you enjoyed! keeping it fun over here :)

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The awesome huge French nose clearly makes a difference. I learn so much from this super perky expert, I could listen to her all day and sometimes do. Opening a wine bar in Thailand I have learned so much and realize how much more there is to learn. Cheers!

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Glad you're digging the Elk Cove, I picked up a bottle out of interest to see what Oregon is doing with Pinot Noir, and I was floored by how well it stacked up against Bourgogne Pinots and WAY better VFM. I'll always have a love for Burgundy, but damn is it ever over priced these days.

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Love it! Very thoughtful breakdown of how to assess a wine, in a very friendly manner. Great info and then: Yeah. I' d drink the crap outa that wine! Too funny!

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Thanks for the recommendations!

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Amazing!!! I loved the sensations and the explanation.

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Can you do a video about how you quantify wine structure? A lot of times, I might say a wine has High alcohol and then someone else will say something completely different, and I'll second guess how I'm perceiving it. So a video (or even a small series) about the different sensations at each level (Low, Med-, Med., Med+, High) for each quality (tannin, alcohol, acid, etc.) would be really helpful!

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boy are you reading my mind right now.

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Trying to learn something new while I am quarantined here in California. ; )

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Love your videos!!!

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@6.12. , 6.20, 6.40 made my friend and I laugh at your expressions. You have it on point on how wine taste perfectly 👍

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Awesome video! Worth saying that viscosity will differ depending on what time of soap you use to wash your glasses or even how you dry those. So if you want to compare wines from one another just be sure always use the same techniques to wash your wine glasses.

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Bilbo Baggins and how!!! Couldn’t agree more!

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first off you are adorable! second, there are thousands of wines from Oregon to consider, I know, I grew up here, you can't go a mile in any direction without stumbling into a winery... its awesome!

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such a great and helpful video! i'm going to include "i would drink the crap outta that " in my ratings scheme. what about evaluating for ageability? and how many g/L of acid are in the most acidic wines? thanks !!

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So well described 👏 it seems I'm tasting the wine through this video.. lol

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Love that your normal and still love wine

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Love Elk Cove too!

[@IrishtownMayo]

Enjoyed the vid. I hope you will return to live streaming tastings. I never had the opportunity to join in and it looks fun and informative. Oh, and also delicious.

[@suginami123]

Would you do a segment on the different wine areas of California ? Napa vs Sonoma. Does it make a difference? Russian River vs .....

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[@huru69]

Very informative and entertaining. Thank you ! Early in the video, you were qualitatively judging the alcohol content based on droplet size. But I didn't hear you mention the relationship: larger drops --> higher alcohol, or larger drops --> lower alcohol ?

[@Winefolly]

Sort of! It's kinda more like number of droplets and vicosity. All this being said, the Gibbs-Marangoni Phenomenon is affected by temperature and humidity in a room, so it's not an exact science.

[@EdRo1900]

So cute. Thank you.

[@SouthSeaTrader]

newbie learnng to be a snob. The question i am left with after watching this video is you state that by following these steps one can assess the QUALITY of a wine. coud you perhaps define quality? IS it the balance of all these features? Seems to me that Quality is a persona; thing, much like: Did i LIKE this wine? and yet Someone else may think the wine I like is shitty. I do NOT have a French nose. I have a decidedly Polish nose. If a wine pairs well with kielbasa and pirogi then i am likely to like it (Alcohol content somewhere near vodka), I am starting my own home vineyard (4 acres) and want to learn to make quality wines that I like. I need to define quality better. Thanks for the video

[@winesoup6907]

Tasting Pinot Noir but your personality is perkier than a Chablis!! :) Still trying to learn a lot about tasting... I do have a question about the Pinot Noir though...so how do you differentiate between the 'earthiness' of Pinot from it being oaky? I also have in my notes that Oregon being a new world wine...(or any Pinot from new world) tends to have more fruity flavors toward 'red fruits'...just my notes from other youtube videos and reading. So...if you compare it say with a French Pinot Noir...would it be expected to be less fruity perhaps because of the style/being old world? Thanks Madeline!

[@TheLandlordPicker]

I hope someday to be able to taste wine like this. I usually just decipher earthy/Oakey or fruity :-)

[@CoconutWaterfalls]

You’re cool. Thanks!