How to Taste Wine Like You Know What You're Doing

Wine tasting has a reputation for being pretentious, full of opaque vocabulary and performative swirling that puts most people off before they start. Today's episode strips all of that away and gives you the actual system that professional tasters use, reduced to its practical core: the Look, Smell, Taste framework, the specific questions to ask yourself at each stage, the vocabulary that's genuinely useful versus the vocabulary that's just showing off, and how to start building a real wine memory.