wine terms to make you sound like a pro
We’ve been there before – you swirl your glass, sniff, try to look confident and take a sip. The somm asks, “what do you think?” “It’s good!” is the answer, regardless if you think it...
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Understanding Spanish Wine Labels
I first learned to like wine by gulping freezing cold Kendall Jackson chardonnay with my mom on Friday nights. We would watch a movie, make a BBQ chicken frozen pizza, and drink an ice cold...
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does expensive wine taste better than cheap wine?
Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen.
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how to look smart at a wine tasting
And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. ‘They must go by the carrier,’ she thought; ‘and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the...
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i like dry wines & you can too
Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down ‘stupid things!’ on their slates, and she could even make out that one of them...
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sweet wines that aren’t for your cousin in college
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and...
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wtf are tasting notes?
Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun ‘Well, of all the unjust things—’ when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others...
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do i have to use a special glass?
By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: ‘but it doesn’t matter much,’ thought Alice, ‘as all the arches...
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