Welcome to Wine Tasting in France!
This blog is designed to showcase all wine experiences in France. We are going wine tasting to a walk in the vineyards, to actually “making” your own wine.
I love wine, and i have the desire to share my passion.
Learning about wine
No one needs a wine website to tell them what they like to drink. Subjectivity in wine is pretty easy. But a wine is not great merely because we like it. Liking a wine is sim- ply liking a wine—it tells you something about what you take pleasure in. I would argue that to really know wine — and to consider its potential greatness — requires that we move beyond what we know we like.
It requires that we attempt a larger understanding of the aesthetics behind wines that have garnered respect, wines that have consistently been singled out for their merit, wines that have, again and again over time, been cherished for their integrity and beauty. I’ll call this our best attempt at wine objectivity. And by attempting to objectively understand wine, we begin to inch toward the underlying principles that make great wine great.
Experiencing wine
What does it take to have as objective an opinion as possible about a wine? Discernment, an open mind, and usually some experience in repeatedly tasting the wine so you have a feel for how it classically presents itself. Experience with the wine is, I think, especially critical.
That’s why you need to go wine tasting, discovering chateaux, walking into the vineyards… And to taste, taste, taste…
I hope you will enjoy this blog.