The Wine Insider - vineyards, winemaking, and the business of wine

In the final part of the seminar we start talking more about wine itself, sugars, oak, the confusing complexity of alcohol, winemaking tricks and defects, and then unfortunately a very rushed survey of wine and food pairing, special wines and the importance of identifying defects.

In this second part of the wine seminar we discuss tasting wine specifically, varietal trademarks, looking at wine, how your nose works, what our palate sensations are like, building a vocabulary and other related sensory issues.

This episode is part one of a 3-hour wine seminar I present to a group of mid-level wine enthusiasts. In this part we cover a bit of wine history and context, tasting descriptors, types of wine tasters and their predispositions, and then a condensed survey of basic viticulture and vineyard overviews and then a winemaking survey of basic procedures for making whites, reds and rosé.

Thanks for tuning in - this is an early-morning episode on a bottling day where I'll be discussing bottling preparation, Chardonnay, sulfur-free wine, and the 2018 grape harvest in Lake County.