Learning to understand wines — dry and dessert, blended and varietal — is especially pleasant in summer. An ideal workshop for a summer residence, a beach or an open city cafe.
Of course, buying good alcohol today is an expensive pleasure, but having studied the taste and aroma characteristics of 55 major wines, you can approach this process with skill. Buy, for example, Italian Vin Santo or South African Pinotage and taste according to all the rules (you can with your eyes closed), determining where there are notes of figs and almonds, is the aroma of smoke too sharp? The creators of one of the most popular wine sites winefolly.com, Madeleine Paquette and Justin Hammeck, authoritatively state that if you try at least 34 varieties of all the wines listed in this graphic guide, and at least one variety from 12 countries, you will become a real connoisseur. The main thing is not all at once.
And don’t forget to snack.
Kolibri, 232 p.