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Misconceptions About Wine

Thought this was an interesting article….

The Biggest Misconceptions About Wine
By: Shawn Wilson

There are quite a few mistakes made out there about wine. The first question is why are there people making this silly mistakes when it comes to tasting, smelling, storing and enjoying wine?

First because of an elitist few wine has always had this pompous sort of arrogance to it. Even myself when I am trying to explain a wine sometimes people will jokingly say “Well it tastes like wine to me!” And you know what they’re right, it is just fermented grapes at the end of the day. Grape juice that will eventually get you drunk.

Because of this intimidation towards wine many of us have developed some bizarre ways of dealing with the whole wine experience. Mistake number one and this always gives me the giggles, at a restaurant when the waiter presents the cork to the taster at the table and he or her decides to smell the cork. First off that is not why the waiter gave you the cork.

It was common place years ago that people would use a more expensive wines labels on much inferior wines. While labels are quite easy to reproduce the corks aren’t. Quality wines from well known vineyards will have their own cork to match the wine being produced, having the reassurance that the wine is indeed what you just paid for is the only reason they offer the cork. If you want to get a good idea what the wine is going to smell or taste like, wait two seconds and drink it!

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