Verities from wine tasting classes.

Depending on how long you’ve been swirling and spilling, there are times when you have to deal with advice offered in a wine tasting class. You can accept it as truth, reject it as myth, or wait until you have confirmation of either. Of course, I jest in the first sentence above about spilling. But I did, in fact, reject a class moderator’s claim that if you weren’t spilling it on yourself or elsewhere, then you weren’t aggressive enough, and would never unleash those otherworldly, underlying aromas and flavors.   And I also must acknowledge that I have stained fine wooden table tops, baptized exquisite handmade tablecloths and napkins, soiled irreplaceable Persian carpets, as well as adding new, semi-floral designs to my silkenTommy Bahama shirts.   Swirl vigorously folks! In large-group, multi-wine tasting classes of old, to quickly learn the basics of color, aroma and flavor, we were advised to bring our own, but correctly styled stemware. Not costly fine crystal, mind you

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