18th Annual Monterey Winery Association Tasting: August 7, Monterey, CA
One of my personal goals includes constantly educating my palate. I do this to both learn to be a better taster and to know more about wine, but also because, like every other wine lover, I’m out to find the next greatest wine to drink. I try to encourage my readers to do the same thing, and the main way I do that is to push them to go to large public tasting events, where they can try dozens and dozens of wines side by side. For me, there is a sharp dividing line in my past. The time before I went to such tastings, and the time after I went to such tastings. Before attending these big events, my deepest education about a wine variety or region came from visiting somewhere. I’d go on vacation and tour some wineries, or I’d head up to wine country for the day, and I’d probably end up tasting 30 or 40 wines in the course of a few days. Or maybe I’d hold a blind tasting of a particular sort of wine with a tasting group. Such activities …
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