5/10/2023 0 Comments The atlas of wine![]() ![]() What they will not provide is the final word on flavours: if, to you, white Burgundy smells like burnt toast and breakfast cereals, you can only be right. They can be used in many ways, from suggesting Champagne that matches fish and chips to providing guidance on how to stock a 21st-century cellar. Each of these books provides an entry point, from gravel to the glass, into the forbidding world of wine. A bit of botany, plus rudimentary geology, sheds light on why sand, while good for building impermanent castles, does not produce classy Châteaux. ![]() A short history will explain how monks learned to make premiers crus (top-quality wines) from vineyards that once produced plonk. Yet when it comes to learning about wine, words are your friends, too. Gallic terms like “ assemblage” (blend) and “ ullage” (airspace in a bottle) can be as opaque to beginners as a shaken bottle of overaged Bordeaux. ![]() ![]() The hefty wine bible parked next to your dishes may contain hundreds of unfamiliar appellations. The terms oenophiles come up with to describe the flavours you are meant to detect in your oversize glass-“sweaty saddle” or “saline clam broth”, for example-can sound like the argot of a lunatic sect. W ORDS ARE the reason why many people find wine tasting arbitrary, intimidating and anachronistic. ![]()
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