by admin | Mar 26, 2025 | Blog
In the last post I detailed my internal strategies for smelling a glass of wine. As I mentioned, I think smell is by far the most important aspect of tasting. So I do most of the work assessing a wine on the nose. By the time I taste a wine, I’m only doing two things:...
by admin | Mar 12, 2025 | Blog
In the last post I explained my internal strategies for looking at a glass of wine in the context of using the deductive tasting grid. At one point I mentioned I thought that the nose of a wine—or smell—was by far the most important aspect of tasting. If anything,...
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
In the fall of 2009, I worked with good friends Taryn Voget and Tim Hallbom on their project called “Everyday Genius.” Their goal was to deconstruct and model what I do internally when I smell and taste wine. To accomplish this, we set up two video sessions with Tim...
by admin | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog
The image in the middle of this post is decidedly out of focus. I took it in Hong Kong in February of 2013 when I was there to do an MS class and exam. Tommy Lam, our local contact, insisted on taking us to his favorite hole-in-a-wall noodle joint for lunch. It was...
by admin | Jan 29, 2025 | Blog
I call them the aromatics, the most floral and flamboyant of all white wines. If they lived in a visual world, it would be somewhere between the saturated Peter Max-like design of the Beatle’s Yellow Submarine and the Barbie movie. In other words, glorious shocking...
