Wine Notes
Reading a wine for yourself...
So for the more nuanced smells, here is a chart by Wine Folly. Check out the website. It's good. However, much of the wine world, even of the more personable and hip framing, is pretension. I just don't see the need of having so many instructions and tutorials on wine, though all of it is good for entertainment. This chart though is all most people will ever need. This is a good guide for understanding a wine without the preconceived notions of what a wine already is. I say this because, unless you are assessing wine for investment, buyers don't care what a wine will be. Rather, they want to understand the wine they are purchasing to drink for the given moment, which can and oftentimes does, break the rules of what is expected. So again, moving beyond the pretension and showiness that intends on marketing wine, these are the actual flavors that one can learn to identify in order to assess the wine confidently by their own account, identifying the quality as an actual culinary measure and not a mere measure of price. I mean, why pay for something if you can't understand what you are paying for? It's best to know the worth of the product purchased, as would be the same case for buying a house or car.
