Welcome to Betty's Wine Musings, where you'll get fabulous wine tasting tips and wine tasting notes, discover personalized wines, and more! Whether you are a wine veteran or just getting started, there’s always something more to explore about the wonderful world of wine.
As you probably know, I’ve been leading wine tastings in people’s homes and offices for the last 14 years as a representative with WineShop At Home. My tastings are an incredibly fun excuse for bringing together 8 to 15 people for some good old-fashioned unadulterated fun. But with COVID-19, those in-home wine tastings can no longer take place. So, guess what. We get do virtual wine tastings!
Summer is all about having fun, staying cool and relaxing. When you think about enjoying summer wines, the same rules apply. Drink wines that allow you to have fun, stay cool and relax. So how do you do that?
Did you start out drinking sweet wines and then gradually switch to less sweet wines? I know I did. I wanted to do some research on wine preferences to see if that is the norm. Thank you to Liz Thach, MW from Sonoma State University, for her great information.
[Read more…]I’m a big red wine drinker, but summer calls for whites. So today, I would like to introduce you to two new summer whites from WineShop At Home that are at the top of my list. I encourage you to try them and enjoy them throughout the summer.
If you’ve ever played Pictionary, you know how much fun it is to come up with hysterical pictures that are meant to resemble clues. What if you combined wine tasting with Pictionary? Let me introduce you to Roland Micu who is America’s youngest master sommelier. His claim to fame is that he thinks about wine in shapes. “For instance, after sipping gruner veltliner (a crisp Austrian white wine), he draws what looks like a starfish on a cocktail napkin. ‘This is what I see when I taste this wine,’ he says. ‘This is its texture.’ A fruitier, full-bodied red blend from Sonoma County inspires what looks like a Rorschach blot. While it is not unheard of to see imagery when tasting, it is rare.”
