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The Systematic Approach: The Nose of Your Wine

Written By: Dylan York on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Just as important as actual wine tasting is the smelling. A nose on a wine is critically judged by experts, and described here are the processes they follow to evaluate each wine.

Analyzing the complexities of a wine's nose and palate is perhaps the most challenging task for a wine lover. Training our minds to look for fruit and non-fruit characteristics in a glass of grape juice takes lots of practice. This article will hopefully offer some guidance with that. Continuing from my last article with a look at how wine...read more
 

Hidden Numbers

Written By: Kasey Carpenter on Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The Wine Auction Index - through these indexing methods wine experts try their best to gauge the value of wine. Unfortunately, the numbers can't reveal everything.

I think it safe to say that everyone who reads this column is in some way shape or form familiar with a wine auction index. Many publications have one, and refer to it from time to time to track the value of a certain bottle of wine over the years, and they do this by following what wine sells for what price at a few of the bigger auctions...read more
 

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