As I plan on taking many more wine endeavors, I also challenge others to do the same and come out to explore. Many places in 
Looking at reviews and photos, this winery seems like a great to stop enjoy a glass while relaxing. This Saturday, on the 10th of November, they are having a free tasting for all Marines and on Sunday they are offering, 10% off on any purchase for all veterans. Come out on Saturday to have a drink with me and celebrate, for I will be driving by to experience this free tasting.
If this will be your first time tasting wine, I have a few tips in learning to appreciate the subtle beauty of wine. Here are just a few simple tips…and a video of what not to do.
Swirl the wine in your glass to see the quality and put your nose deep in the glass to take a good smell.
When taking a drink of wine, don’t swallow right away. Swig the wine around your mouth to have all you taste buds feel the different flavors and textures
Here are some commonly found tastes for these known wines.
- Merlot - black fruits like plums, green spices
- Zinfandel - black fruits like raspberries, black spices
- Pinot Noir - red fruits, floral, herbs
- Chardonnay – Fruits like apple, pear, and peach
- Sauvignon Blanc- Fruits like grapefruit, melon, and lime
Remember just to have a good time and enjoy yourself with the people around you and ask questions to the people who work there, they would be happy to share their knowledge regarding wine or they just might tell you great wine stories. Most importantly, always have a designated driver, although a few swirls don’t seem much, it’s still driving and driving.
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I had been in Chrysalis winery in Virginia. The winery is not big, but was beautiful. It reminded me of Italy. Italian, French, German, and Spanish wines are more used to me. I did not know that there were many local wineries in America and wines from local wineries had competitive power. Testing wines is fun, even though I cannot drink alcohol too much.
I do not think drinking wine is different meaning with drinking just alcohol. To becoming to know about wine is to discover treasures.
Prior to a little over a year ago, I was not a fan of wine at all. But we went up to Door County, WI to visit family and ended up at a winery. (I'll be honest; we only went to get a break from the boys.) We got to tour the facility and taste all of their wines. I realized that wine can actually taste good! Seeing how I had never been a fan of wine, I had no idea that there were ways to taste wine. Where was this blog last year?! :) I of course, just drank it down. I can only imagine just how much better the sweet cherry wine would have been if I had taken my time. Oh well, I've got a bottle of it in the fridge, so when we pop the cork on Thanksgiving, I'll be sure to take my time and remember your tips. And thanks for letting everyone know that on the 10th they will be having free tasting for Marines, I think that will be the kicker to get my husband out there.
Sadly, I am not of age to enjoy your advice of wineries. My parents are big wine drinkers and where we get our Christmas tree is right next to a winery so we would always stop in there and take the tour and they would sample the wines. The winery is called Prince Michael and is in Leon, Virginia. It is about an hour to an hour and half away, but it is very beautiful and worth the drive. I did however; find your descriptions of the common tastes for each type of wine interesting and useful. I never knew that each type had those specific associations I only knew that they had a different taste. I was in France a few years ago, where I was able to drink legally, and remember the wines they had.
This is both an interesting and informative post. I wonder, though, did you get those wine-drinking pointers from any particular site? If so, definitely link them to us so we can explore it even further (it's not one of those common-knowledge sorts of things).
Enjoy your wine tasting!
I have only had one had one encounter with wine, that was this summer when my family and I went on a cruise. Technically I was legal since I was not on U.S. turf. We were having our formal night on the ship, where you meet the captain and everyone is in their nicely attire, so y parents offered me a glass of wine. I am not going to lie to you though; my first and only experience with it was nasty. Now I did not do the steps you recommended and maybe that would have helped but it was some dark red wine and it was so bitter! I hear that white wine is not as bitter and some people prefer that. Is that true? Maybe when I am of legal age I will refer back to your steps and try it again.
Wow. You have a ton of readers. Either that means that people love wine, or they love to read about those who like wine. I'm a fan of both!
Now watch the little things here. We don't get a winery visit yet...and I was hoping we did. Textually, give us even more. You mix Borat with wine rules, and I don't know if that's satire on your part or a real plan (because how many people are *really* like that? Do I want the answer to that?). Did you do anything wine-specific this weekend?
About spaces: your sentences are running together here and that makes the reading a bit hard. Watch for those little things!
I haven't yet to go to a winery out here in Virginia. How many wineries have you been to so far. I plan on going to the potamic winery this weekend or next weekend. Have you tried Reisling it has got to be the best wine I have ever tasted. I should have done the same topic I am extremely enivious of you right know. Keep us posted.
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