Wine Tasting - How to Taste & Appreciate Wine

People who love wine want to be knowledgeable about wine — and perhaps hopefully, share that knowledge with others. This makes sense, not just because people behave this way with so many subjects, but also because wine is a subject where increased knowledge really can increase one's appreciation for and enjoyment of it. Put another way, the more you know about wine, the more you can appreciate and enjoy wine. Unfortunately, wine is also a subject where knowledge and "sharing" can go too far.

With all the different wine reviews and tasting notes here, you deserve to know how we choose our wines, what our procedures are for reviewing wines, and the reasoning behind our evaluations. This will help you know how much credence or weight you should give to our reviews. We try to be as open and forthright as possible with what we say, so feel free to ask any questions you have.

Everywhere you look and see discussions about wine, you are sure to find wine tasting notes and wine scores. There isn't a wine review out there that doesn't include tasting notes about the wine and some sort of score for the wine. Even this site has plenty of tasting notes and something similar to a wine score, though it's not a score in the usual sense. You shouldn't always pay too much attention to either, though, because wine tasting notes and wine scores aren't always the best way to be introduced to a new wine.