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Wine’s Vocabulary of Taste

With practice — and I do mean practice — tasting wine, you may be able to pick up some of the more nuanced characteristics in your glass.

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Being able to notice what your tongue, mouth, and nose experience and then putting those into words is a skill. Helena Lopes via pexels.com
CLARA DALZELL
CLARA DALZELL

While preferences are subjective, taste is not: Identifying and describing what you are tasting and then deciding on an affinity or aversion to it is the biggest battle most people face when trying to talk about, order, or purchase wine. 

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CLARA DALZELL
CLARA DALZELL

Ms. Dalzell runs a wine consulting and marketing business for retailers and importers in the US from her home in Copenhagen. She has a DipWSET, has dreams of being a Master of Wine and teaches private and corporate wine classes both online and offsite. When not running a business or writing for The New York Sun, she enjoys cooking elaborate meals, reading fiction, fantasy, and historical non-fiction, playing card and board games, entertaining her friends, and traveling the world. Her greatest loves are her daughter the Baby Wine Witch and husband Billy, followed closely by Champagne.

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