Become a Wine Expert; How to Taste & Drink Wine Elegantly

By Etiquette & Style Academy

Become a Wine Expert

How to Taste & Drink Wine Elegantly

Want to know more about wine? You are at the right place. This book is structured, short and sweet, and extremely cool for beginners.

We cover wine basics, grape varieties and countries.

Grape varieties

80% of all wines in the world are made from 20 major grape varieties. It is enough to know the main ones to choose good wine. We study 6 main whites, 5 main reds, and 5 sparkling wines.

⁠You will have a profile for each variety: color, aromas, characteristics, regions and producers, food paring, similar varieties.

Countries

We will briefly discuss France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Argentina, and Chile.⁠

⁠You will learn how to read the wine labels of these countries, get essential and structured information about regions and wines that you should definitely try. A list of producers is attached, of course. ⁠

You will finally understand what is so particular in expensive French and Italian wines. And if there is any difference between Old and New Worlds.

Welcome on board and let's begin. Cheers!

What you'll learn

How to taste, drink and store wine correctly?

How to read wine labels from different countries?

How to choose good wine?

Wines from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and New World.

Main grape varieties and the difference between them.

What affects wine quality and the price?

What is so particular about expensive French and Italian wines?

Get the lists of the best producers of all wine discussed.

Improve your wine consumption and save money on wine.

Learn what glasses and wine gadgets to buy

 

This book is for all wine lovers who are passionate about wine and want to make their wine consumption more diverse and elegant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Royal Hawaiian Press
• Release date: Jun 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201750022

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Become a Wine Expert

Become a Wine Expert

How to Taste & Drink Wine Elegantly

By Etiquette & Style Academy

BECOME A WINE EXPERT

BY ETIQUETTE & STYLE ACADEMY

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Table of Contents

Part I

1.1 Study plan

1.2 Wine terms and history

1.3 Intro to grape varieties

1.4 What affects wine quality and price?

1.5 Wine production

1.6 How to taste wine correctly

1.7 5 main features of wine

1.8 Serving wine

1.9 Storing wine

Part II

2.1 Main whites, reds. Rose. Sparkling and sweet.

Part III

3.1 France

3.2 Italy

3.3 Spain, Germany, Portugal

3.4 The New World

Part IV

4.1 Guide how to pair Wine and Food

Part I

1.1 Study plan

We're going to speak about main wine terms and some facts of wine history, a little bit about grape varieties. And we'll explain the process of winemaking and five main features of wine. I show you how to taste wine correctly: eye-nose-mouth and how to serve wine, what glasses to use, what temperature, how to aerate the wine, and how to storage wine.

In all chapters, you may see pictures from our wine tastings. I used them to create the atmosphere of the real wine tasting. So, all this information we need only for one reason. We need to drink good wines, so we need to know how to choose them. That's why we need to learn something about grape varieties, countries, styles, and wine labels.

1.2 Wine terms and history

Here we’ll discuss some essential wine terms. All wines can be divided into 2 main groups: still wine and sparkling wine, sparkling wines are those with bottles, fortified wine is the type of dessert wine, is not necessarily sweet. It might be dry. For example, Jerez or Sherry from Spain.

We would like you to understand the difference between winery and vineyard. Winery is a producer. It's an estate where wine is made. Vineyard is a place, a part of land where they grow vines with grape. So, appellation or region is the most important information about the wine. So, the region the wine comes from tells you a lot about the wine, it is taste, its style, its quality.

Grape variety: wine can be made from one grape variety, but for example, Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon, could be a blend up to ten grape varieties in one bottle. So vintage or year it's a date, its a year of harvesting wine. So, on the counter label or on the back label of your bottle, you might find another date. Date when wine was bottled. you are not interested very much in that date. You're interested in vintage.

Wine aging is the most important processes in making wine. So aging gives wine a structure and tannins is the red wine. Aging helps to make wine dense and elegant and intense. in oak barrels or can be in in bottles. Unoaked wine is the wine without aging. The cork and screw cap, we are you going to discuss them. So basically, those are closures for wine.

Oenology is the science about growing wine not making in terms of production in winery but in vineyards. How to grow perfect grape. Sommelier is a person who is an expert in wine. Well, historically, Sommelier was the person in the restaurant who was for buying good wines and I'm choosing them for guests? So, if you call your friend, who is good at wines a sommelier -it's not correct. Better call him experts or Wine geek and cavist is the person who sells wine in a special specialized shops in wine shops. So, let's have a look at milestones of wine history. First mentions of wine came from China, it was rice wine. So not only coronavirus come from China. First winery was found in Armenian 4110 before Christ. In ancient Greece wine was important part of everyday life and especially feasts and celebrations. Greek word symposium means philosophical talk with wine.

When you're having a party with your friends with wine -you're at a symposium. Main thing I want you to understand about drinking wine at those time that wine was the source of drinking water for people. There were no filters, no sanitizers, no Bon Aqua. So, people needed to find the source of drinkable water. And it was wine.

In ancient Greece, people used to blend water with wine. So, a mixture of water and wine just to sanitize the water and make it drinkable. There is still a proverb that you drink wine like a barbarian. That means that you drink wine without mixing it with water. Jesus came and he turned into wine. Unfortunately, not everyday basis, only on special occasions and weddings, but it's still the same idea that he gave a miracle - he gave people drinking water in the shape of wine. In 65 A.D., First Enology books appeared so people start thinking how to make their wine better Twenty-one centuries ago.

A very famous saying In Vino Veritas, which means the truth is in wine, was said by Pliny the Elder in 77 A.D. In 800 A.D., the first sommeliers and caveats appeared at the French Royal Court. So, the profession started. The oldest still operating winery Château de Goulaine was built in 100 A.D, wow in 1000 AD I'm sorry. So, it's very a very long history of the Château. In 1180 in Alsace monks started to write down each vintage and they still doing it. So, the information about Each vintage from 11800. Just imagine how big this book is. Monks played vital role in all wine making industry. In 1520 first grape was planted in New World in California. brought by first colonizers. In 1535 sparkling wine appeared, occasionally by chance. Very interesting story, I'll tell you next time. There was a very sad and gloomy period in history at the end of the 19th century. It was epidemic of phylloxera. It's a small insect that eats the roots of the vine and destroys it, destroys them.

This insect was brought from America occasionally, not on purpose to France, and to Italy, and Spain, and almost 75% of all vineyards were destroyed. So, it was panic. It was pandemic. The solution came also from the United States, and it was grafting the European grape vine onto American root stock. So, they took roots from America vines, and it will and make a hybrid with the European vines.

When you hear people saying that in the old world we have better vineyards, better vines because of the history and so on and so forth. It's not true because nowadays, actually, all vineyards are equal. So, the mixture of old and new naves. In 1955, 54 sorry, only how many? Seventy years ago, first tractors appeared on vineyards. So, before this time all job was made by hand. In 1964 a screw cap appeared in Australia.

In 1978 Robert Parker issued his first wine newsletter, so the era of wine critics began. Robert Parker is a very famous American critic who issued some guides and books he issued also a magazine. And what happened: he, is being an American, he has a particular taste in red wines, especially. So, he liked mostly (he likes) fruity wines like hose fruit bombs. So, the American style of red wine and as his opinion is very important, very, very evaluated

The winemakers are starting to make wine in the way Robert Parker should like. So, his opinion and opinion of all the wine critics, they change the industry. So, industry is trying to make wines in the taste of ten people. So, is it good or is it bad for the industry? We're goanna find out, I