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,...
Coming to My Senses

Coming to My Senses

It was Christmas dinner in 1981. At the time, I was a grad student at the University of Michigan studying classical trumpet. That first year Carla and I elected not to go home to New Mexico for the holidays, but chose instead to stay in frigidly cold and snowy Ann...