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Wine Blends: The Treasures of the Wine World

Why they are necessary and important There is a common misconception among wine consumers that if...

Everything You Need to Know About Aligoté: A Quick Guide

Aligoté is a neutral, high acid, white grape variety hailing from Burgundy, France. If you thought...

Grape vs Winemaker: Where Does One Start and the Other Begin?

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Assessing the Champagne Glass: All you need to know about the coupe the flute and the tulip

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October Wrap! 🍁 Happy Halloween Friends. Great

October Wrap! 🍁 Happy Halloween Friends. Great excuse to pour those sweeter/fortified styles in place of candy. Hello Sherry, Muscat, and my fave: Madeira.

Every year October comes around, and then it feels like someone pushes the ‘fast forward’ button on the rest of the year!

🏃🏼‍♀️This past month for me has been all about, early AM studying, cold weather morning runs, community calls and events, and starting to plan 2025!

Last weekend I booked a hotel room and went on a bit of a clarity planning break! (It was so quiet… the absence of noise was just what I needed). I did a lot of analyzing what’s working, what’s not working, goal setting, and most importantly ...got to work on my 10 year plan - which I created a couple of years ago and update every year. It’s been a game-changer every year.

Not everything goes to plan, and there are some things I no longer want, but having a path that I can visually reference has put me so much further along than if I didn’t have any sort of road map.

Every year I tweak this just a little bit and bring it back out, to share (a little copy/paste action) so you can also course out your vision.

If you are interested in doing this, just comment 10YEAR and I’ll send it to your inbox!

👉🏻 What’s been the highlight of your October?!

#winestagram #wine #winestudy #winestudent #winelife

I’m guessing you’re here because you love wine

I’m guessing you’re here because you love wine a lot… probably even more than any other boozy beverage.
(I hope if we’re friends on here, that’s the case.)

I like to dig into wine reads every weekend and lately it’s a lot of “oh no”!
I’ve been bombarded with wine and health updates and reasons why people aren’t drinking wine any more. (It’s everywhere) 📰

However, I continue to run into people who love wine and want to know more about it …and I feel like there are more people who are curious about wine than those who immediately dismiss it.

For me wine has more power of transporting me to another place or another time. It has so much history to it and all the nuances continue to be incredibly captivating. I can’t imagine the intrigue of wine completely disappearing. It’s too fascinating.

👉🏻 So why do you pick wine over anything else?!

Help me make a list of reasons to choose wine.

#winedrinker #winelover #wineeducation #wineindustry #wineknowledge

💭”There is a common misconception among wine

💭”There is a common misconception among wine consumers that if their wine is a blend of different grape varieties, then it is of inferior quality…

❌This cannot be further from the truth.

In fact, the most famous premium wines like Champagne, Bordeaux, Chianti Classico, and Sauternes, to name a few, are all blends.”

In our lastest article Rana Masri @thewineofthings explains all things BLENDS
▪️Where blends started
▪️Why winemakers blend
▪️How wines are blended
▪️Examples of blends

👉🏻 Comment READ and I’ll shoot the article over to your DMs!

#winemaking #winemaker #viticulture #vinification #blending #wineregions #winevarieties #wineblending #winestudent #wineeducation

Comparatives a series of various themed tastings

Comparatives
a series of various themed tastings
episode 5: German vs Washington Riesling ⚡️🌞

They both can be off-dry, bright, easy, and great values * so let’s give this a shot… I mean taste.

#comparativetastings #winetastings #blindtasting #blindtastingthemes #winestudy #wineeducation #riesling #germanwine #wawine

I know I’m not the only one working on these! 😉

Here’s how I visually organized a bunch of tannin descriptors so my brain could find some links. 🔗

Let’s talk about these too!

👉🏻 What other wines do you find these in, and are there other descriptors you use?!

#tannins #winetannin #winestructure #winetasting #blindtasting #winestudent #redwine

💫 Come join us for Blind Tasting Group next mon

💫 Come join us for Blind Tasting Group next month - Monday, November 11th!

We’re honored to have Jane Lopes @janeymaxine (Sommelier, Educator, Author, + Co-founder of @auswinelegends come hang out and chat Blind Tasting with us! 🍷📚🇦🇺

We chose a theme for this lineup that we’ve NEVER done before in Tasting Group! We knew we needed to do something outside of Australia (because that would be too obvious) and came up with a theme that will lead to a lot of inspiring conversation. Join us next month to guess along and find out what it is!

👉🏻 Tasting Group is a virtual blind tasting club for wine students, industry professionals, and anyone who loves to taste comparatively!
You receive 2-4 bottles. We meet monthly on a Zoom meetup and run through the process collaboratively! We talk about benchmark standouts as well as personal notes. Both are important in this process.

⏳The cutoff date for this event is October 21st!

✔️ To ‘learn more’ and join us - comment “TASTING GROUP” below and I’ll message you the details! Or reach out with any questions!
***currently U.S. only (outside US options coming in 2025)

#blindtastinggroup #tastinggroup #blindtasting #winelineups #winestudent #tastingpractice

💥NEW wine in the library! Who has tasted Aligot

💥NEW wine in the library! Who has tasted Aligoté!?

If you thought Burgundy whites were only made with Chardonnay, that is almost true …Aligoté is the exception (only accounting for 6% of plantings). It is considered “the other white grape of Burgundy” (and is becoming increasingly delicious!💫

Care to know more?⁣⁣⁣⁣

👉🏻 Comment READ and I’ll shoot the article over to your DMs!

➡️ Have you tasted this wine? Tell us your thoughts and recommendations! ⁣⁣⁣

#winestudent #varieties #winevarieties #whitewine #winegrapes #burgundy #aligote #bourgognealigote #winetasting

🪨 Let’s talk MINERALITY in wine? An attention

🪨 Let’s talk MINERALITY in wine? An attention grabbing, and certainly misunderstood term (with no scientific definition).

I personally love it and still use it!

🗻 Scientifically …it does not support any transfer of rocks or mineral elements through the soil and into a finished wine.⁣

HOWEVER, when we taste wine, we form that association in our minds …we know about the terroir/soil where the grapes are grown, and we construct what this flavor or texture is in our brains! We imagine or GIVE chalk a taste (despite never having chewed up a piece).⁣
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🐚 So as far as science, there are no detectable “slate” compounds in a finished Mosel Riesling or “flint” compounds in a finished Pouilly-Fumé (as far as chemical analysis goes) ...BUT some of us have been trained to taste this and will note the aroma, flavor, and/or texture to be present!⁣
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💭 My opinion remains that this term is helpful, despite the ambiguity and many thoughts and opinions on it. When someone describes a wine as being “mineral driven”, to me it may mean one or all of the below: ⁣
▪️There are major elements of inorganic (sometimes organic) earth⁣ (wet rock or stone) AKA - It smells “fresh”!
▪️There is lack of ripe fruit⁣
▪️There is a lack of oak (especially new)⁣
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✨To some it is more of a texture than an overall flavor, and to others simply a personal association with terroir! ⁣
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🔎 The jury is still out on what exactly minerality means, but just like there are clearly no cherries in wines made from grapes, … ‘cherry’ remains a descriptor. As long as we know that we’re not directly tasting the minerals from the soil, or telling people this to be true …I don’t think there is a huge need to fight this term.⁣
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〰️ What are your thoughts here??? What wines do you find fit this category?⁣
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#winestudy #wineterms #sommlife #mineral #minerality #pouillyfume #sancerre #winesoils #terroir #winedescriptors #winetasting #winestudent #blindtasting #winetastes #mineralityinwine #tasting #tastingnotes

Comparatives a series of various themed tastings

Comparatives
a series of various themed tastings
episode 4: Italian Whites 🇮🇹🍋

“They all taste the same” …but they all don’t actually taste the same!

👉🏻 Tell me your favorite Italian white that isn’t Pinot Grigio!

Wines:
@schenkfamily_italia
@icapitaniwinery
@dalcerofamily
@piocesare1881

#comparativetastings #winetastings #blindtasting #blindtastingthemes #winestudy #wineeducation #italianwhites #winesofitaly #pinotgrigio #fiano #cortese #gavi

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