Is that even possible? To like any wine you drink?
One answer could be, well, if you’d had a lot to drink all wines taste good.
Yet another answer is to know how to improve the situation and your experience of any wine.
Some experts will tell you to carefully match the wine to the food – the weight, complexity, richness or delicacy. Others will say food doesn’t matter, only the wine does. Yet in the end, we can choose to enjoy any wine, more or less, no matter what.
What you do to enjoy any wine –
- Choose your company carefully, have well-rounded joyful people to share with.
- Have some food, a simple snack or a full meal
- Swirl, sniff, toast and sip
To have some fun –
– Close your eyes and take in all the facets of this wine – become aware of its essence or expression
– Does the wine offer up a picture, word and story.
– Who does this wine remind you of…
Now if there is an initial problem- you don’t like the wine –
- Wine is too tannic, biting – sprinkle a little salt or citrus juice on whatever you’re eating,
- Wine is too overpowering – let it breathe while you do the same. Bite into something fatty (not your friend’s arm)
- Wine is too whimpy – give the bottle to someone else to enjoy and open an other. Or if no one else is around, use it to make salad dressing or water the hydrangeas.
Remember that wine is a gift, a promise to please you, made by people giving what they know and have, to tending the spirit of the grape.
When we can appreciate any of the layers or expressions of wine, what is left is an experience to enjoy.
Have more fun exploring wine’s ‘art and soul in Wine’s Hidden Beauty.
One of these was more tannic while the other more full bodied, well rounded.
Both are crafted from Bordeaux grapes mostly cabernet sauvignon and also petit verdot, cab franc, merlot, and malbec.
One is French, the other from Napa Valley. One is 30 years, the other only 11. One is Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, the other Spottswoode.