wine tasting 101 – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen Making Every Day an Occasion... Simply Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:11:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-peonies-32x32.jpg wine tasting 101 – In Good Taste http://ingoodtaste.kitchen 32 32 How To: Taste Wine Like a Master Sommelier http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/how-to-taste-wine-like-a-master-sommelier/ http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/how-to-taste-wine-like-a-master-sommelier/#comments Mon, 12 May 2014 05:00:14 +0000 http://www.ingoodtastemag.com/?p=6349 You’re out to dinner and you order a bottle of wine for the table. The server or sommelier expertly opens the bottle, pours you a taste, and stands by expectantly, waiting for you to…do something. When most people taste wine, they either like it or they don’t. To demystify some of the intricacies involved in tasting wines, we joined Alpana Singh, owner of the wine-centric Chicago eatery The Boarding House, and the youngest woman ever to achieve the rank of Master Sommelier, for a wine-tasting course about how to taste wine like a professional sommelier. While tasting wine can be as simple as: “do I like this or not?” there are many attributes of wine: smell and taste and how to put all elements together when pairing wines with food that contribute to the experience. Singh uses a deductive tasting format to identify the grape, country, origin and vintage wine and offers a variety of tips to help even the novice wine drinker learn how to analyze a wine’s legs, body, nose, and other markers to understand how to get the most out of your wine tasting experience.   Sight Before you start sipping, Singh advises that you take a look at the […]

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