Personal Tasting Strategies Part II: Smell

Personal Tasting Strategies Part II: Smell

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,...
Favorite Smells

Favorite Smells

The story goes something like this. It was the first summer after Carla and I started dating, which was many moons ago. How many? That year the number one movie was the original summer blockbuster—Star Wars. Now it’s called Star Wars: A New Hope. This after the...
Random Wine Associations

Random Wine Associations

There’s an episode of Spongebob SquarePants where he and Patrick Starr must somehow pass through the perfume section in a department store. Mind you this makes no sense given that the show takes place in Bikini Bottom, which happens to be underwater. But as they...