BVC Taster: Wine

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 recognizing, 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.

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11 quizzes, 121 questions in all.

All 11 quizzes reshuffle their answer options on every attempt, so a retake cannot be passed by remembering where the right answer sat.
All 11 quizzes long enough to measure (8 or more questions) pass the length check: in those, the right answer is as often a long option as a short one, so it cannot be picked out by length alone.
All 121 questions link back to the lesson that teaches the answer.
All 121 questions explain the answer once you have responded.

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