One Response to “What makes a great wine and how can we simply choose the best wine?”

1. freesumpin on April 29th, 2010 11:15 am
   

   If you’d never tasted an alcoholic beverage and had your first taste of practically anything alcoholic you might think it was poison! But it seems the more education and experience a person receives the more he has to base an opinion.
   Sweet wines seem to appeal to beginning drinkers; they’re easier going down.
   Red or white? I started drinking Annie Greensprings Blush Rose years ago but found it too sweet with food – and boring. Then California Chardonnays, but Sav Blanc went down easier. Then Beaujalais Village, Merlots and Cabs, but my fave now are Zinfandels, rich,jammy and complex. Also up to 17% alc! If a Cab had 17% it probably wouldn’t ‘taste right’! I have very little taste for Sparkling wines and it’s hard for me to rate them but I have great opinions of Zins.
   Ideal alc is when the wine tastes ‘balanced’.
   Get actual experience; other’s opinions are only their opinions – not yours. Go to wine tastings. Read a book about how to taste wines. Take a wine course at a Jr College, if you’re old enough; your question although a good one is a young one.
   When you find a varietal you like purchase five different brands of that wine. Talk about what you like/don’t like with your friends.
   Some folks like Häagen-Dazs and some Baskin-Robbins, eh?

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