Wine tasting

If you've ever been to a wine tasting get together you have probably really enjoyed yourself - we certainly do at the Vino Club. They can be very...

There are so many different types of wines available these days, so it can be quite difficult to pick one you will like. How do you recognise a good...

Have you ever read a professional wine taster's tasting notes and question whether all the aromas and flavours described are really there? To the inexperienced, they probably aren't. But, you can actually train your palate to do a better job of tasting fine wine, to develop a deeper appreciation and derive greater joy.

It takes practice and following a rigid tasting protocol. We are talking about subtleties here. With experience, exercise and training, the palate becomes more sensitive to nuance. Once imperceptible, flavours and aromas literally leap to life, revealing the many facets inherent in well crafted fine wine.

The tasting protocol is really only a two step process: swirl...