Wine experts, how did you learn?

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:46

I know there's a few clued up on wine. How did you learn about wines and more importantly how did you learn which wine matches which food. Is there good books on this? did you take some courses?

I've been on a fair few wine tastings and know a lot more about how to taste wine, but that's about it. Not how to identify good wines or how to match them to food types.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 16:54

Yeah I know that. But I'm wanting to get much more into it. Than just saying red goes with red meat.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:05

apeZ said:
That said, just try everything and decide what you like and don't like. I remember some wine buffs saying they write down everything they taste in a notebook, with notes on taste, smell and such.

I've started doing that. As I simply can't remember what I like and don't. Now there are some wines that obviusly match certain foods. Like I tried a dessert wine which had an undertone of burnt sugar. Which would taste amazing with any caramel type pudding.

But for the most part things are a lot more subtle than that,

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:22

do you think it would be useful to go to something like one of the tesco wine nights.
http://www.tescowinefair.com/index.html

Master of wine, now there's a title..

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 17:44

What are the wset course like? is it like a training course that you just do a test at the end? Are they worth, do you actually learn a lot. or just learn how to pass the test,.

Glaucus · 19 Jul 2009 at 18:09

so they aren't like training courses then.