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Go to a wine tasting, speak to pros? Why do you ask? Btw drinking good wine is an expensive habit.
The only way to do this is to drink a lot of wines. Be patient. You will have to try many different types and you will not like most of them at first. Also, find a friend who is a wine connoisseur to help you.
The only way to do this is to drink a lot of wines.
In any event, that is always a good idea.
Why do you want to?
People don’t generally go around looking for habits to pick up.
Appreciating good wines (in moderation, of course) is a pleasure, not a “habit”.
Okay, granted. I didn’t think the word sounded right.
But still, I assume his life isn’t empty and purposeless- and if it was he shouldn’t be looking for fulfillment in wine tasting- but why does one look to learn how to appreciate wine?
Should one be accustomed to eat Stale Bread and water.
All food requires some acquired taste, and wine is no different
Yes, but the whole question just sounds funny.
A taste for wine seems like something you’d come across organically and naturally- not by starting off drinking Malaga and suddenly buying the “Idiot’s Guide to Wine Appreciation” on a quest to develop a “keen taste for wines,” as the OP describes it.
I’m not saying that’s exactly what OP’s doing, but the question is kind of interesting.
The same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice, my boy, practice.
Just make sure you can afford it. The habbit comes with a price
Why would anyone want to? What’s wrong with drinking the same wines our parents and grandparents drank?
Yaacov, in Europe the Herzog’s ( Kedem ) made dry and semi dry wines so your ancestors probably did drink the same wines. Kosher wine became associated with very sweet in the US. The only local grape they could find was bitter tasting and required lots of sugar to make it drinkable
Why would anyone want to? What’s wrong with drinking the same wines our parents and grandparents drank?
Because they are disgusting
Drink a Nice Merlot and then drink that garbage called Malaga and you will see the differnce in a second
I loathe, detest, hate, cannot stand to drink dry wine (and guests invariably bring me them when they come for dinner). L-rd knows I have tried, because they are healthier for someone with a sugar problem, than a sweet wine. Semi-dry, I can tolerate better. I just don’t get how the personw who took the first sip of a dry wine thought to himself, “Wow, this very unsweet drink is yummy. let’s have some more!” But then again, I never understood how anyone drinking whisky would ever take a second sip, or even black unsweetened coffee, for that matter. (And I will NEVER get how anyone took a look at lobster and said, “Oh boy, I would LOVE to eat that giant cockrach!”)How does one acquire the taste for these things?
Hang out with wine snobs.
Oomis you are free to give me all the Dry Wine you get as gifts
I second that! lol
Years ago someone asked the wine critic in the Times ” should I buy the $10 or $200 bottle?”. The critic asked if the man could tell the difference. When he replied that he couldn’t, the critic said, unless you’re a snkb, buy the $10 bottle
Some of my favorite kosher wines are from Trader Joe’s and are under $10 a bottle. The Temprenal Tempranillo and the Prosecco are fantastic and go down really well. The Tempranillo’s dry taste, rich undertones, and low price make it ideal for cooking; I use it in Italian sugo, for braising beef, etc. Absolutely superb. I have a few bottles of the Tempranillo in the cellar; I think aging would do it justice for drinking.
$200 on wine? Oy vey…
$15-$20 is what I consider “nice”, and $35 is a real splurge. I don’t think I would spend $200 on a bottle of wine even if I won the lottery.
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