Intro to Wine Tasting!

All right! You’ve got the basics down now: the flow, the framework, and the step-by-step process for moving through a wine and jotting down a few notes. Now it’s time for the practice part.

The goal is to keep building your palate library using both variety benchmarks and your own personal notes. Both matter!

As you taste consistently and start noticing patterns, you’ll feel more confident in what’s in the glass and more comfortable talking about what you’re tasting.

If you need a place to take notes, I’ve created a resource for you: my beginner tasting frameworks.

They include benchmark notes for the varieties we tasted today, plus quite a few more.

Each framework covers common fruit profiles for the grape, benchmark non-fruit notes, and structural ranges, and it also leaves blank space for you to record what you personally notice as you taste and learn.

Benchmark notes are a crucial place to start, but your personal notes are just as important.

The more you taste, the more you write down, and the more you practice saying your notes out loud, the more clearly patterns will emerge across varieties.

I’m offering these at a great deal as a thank you for watching and for starting your tasting journey. Details are below!

And remember: tasting isn’t something we’re instantly good at.

It takes consistent practice, and these frameworks are a strong place to start.

Whatever you use, keep tasting, keep taking notes, and keep noticing.

You’ve got this!