So, a fair question to ask is: Who are these three guys and what makes them think they know anything about wine?
And our answer is: we enjoy wine, we have collectively, drunk wine in all 50 United States and 65 foreign countries, and we like sharing our experiences.
We do not profess to be experts in any sense, except to the degree that lots of wine drinking makes us knowledgeable about wine in the same way that hitting lots of golf balls makes one better at golf. You know, 10,000 hours and all.
In the coming months we’ll discuss such vital issues as: Do corks really matter? What do you say to the sommelier when your wine sucks? And does wine really taste better out of a $100 tulip-shaped Riedel glass than a red Solo cup?
Yes, all these are burning issues that you won’t find addressed on Nextdoor. (And please don’t try.)
So let’s start with some definitions, many of which involve the anatomy:
- A wine’s “nose”, cleverly enough, is meant to describe how it smells.
- A wine’s “legs” refers to the way droplets of wine drip down the inside of a wine glass. (This is apparently important to some people.)
- A wine’s “body” refers to its overall richness; most red wines, for example, have more “body” than white wines.
Thankfully, that’s as far as anatomical definitions go. But there is one more critical definition you need to look for. All wine bottles have the abbreviation “ABV” which means alcohol by volume, which is a very good indicator of how you will feel the morning after a really good wine party. (The average alcohol content of wine ranges from 5.5%to 15.5% with some “fortified” wines reaching as high as 25%).
And over the next year we’ll get into as many specifics as the editors of Tidelines will allow.
Cheers!
-Submitted by Bill Good
(Image credit: Pixabay.com and Vinepair.com)