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Hi, I'm going to tell you about wine tasting. You've probably been invited to a wine tasting
party, or know someone that loves to go wine tasting in the wine country; but really, what
is wine tasting? Tasting is different from drinking. I'd like you to know that of course,
I approve of both activities, tasting and drinking, but they're very separate. Drinking,
I know you know what that is. It's what you're going to do tonight, with your friends, or
when you're sitting alone with a bottle of wine; fine enough. Tasting; on the other hand,
is a much more directed activity. Tasting involves all your senses, not just taste.
Tasting involves paying attention to what you're doing, and the most important part
of tasting is taking your impressions of the wine, which are very personal and subjective,
and they don't have to match other people's impressions of the wine. What you're doing
is you should take your impressions of the wine and try to put it into words. When you
put it into words, you can communicate with other people, and you can really talk about
wine tasting, and enjoy it. So remember that wine tasting is using all of your senses,
and it's paying attention. You're paying attention to the tastes, flavors, smells, aromas, impressions
of the wine. I actually wrote a textbook, and I have a textbook definition of wine tasting.
The textbook definition of wine tasting is the use of the senses in a systematic, disciplined
way, to learn about the chemical and physical properties of wine. It might not sound like
as much fun as pounding it down, but it's a good way to spend an evening, and you can
learn a lot from wine tasting.