BVC Taster: Wine

by bam

Learn to taste wine systematically and choose it confidently: the four-stage tasting grid and the six structural components, the noble grapes and the markers that give each one away, how climate and place land in the glass, what the cellar does (oak, malolactic conversion, skin contact, carbonic maceration, the sparkling methods, botrytis and fortification), how to read any label in the world by decoding AOC, DOCG, DO, Predikat and AVA, the regions that set the reference points, what a price actually buys you in a shop and on a restaurant list, correct service, storage and the seven faults worth recognising, the mechanics behind why the classic food pairings work, and finally blind deduction: putting a glass in front of yourself and calling the grape, the climate, and the age from evidence. The sequel to BVC Season 2, Episode 9, which covers wine's history. Twelve tasting flights with budgets and substitutes, and a parallel no-alcohol path through every drill. Not affiliated with, and not exam preparation for, any certifying body.