In the last class on Friday, Alder’s truthful and authentic
advices on how to taste and enjoy the wine confirmed directions on my future
wine journey.
Among thousands of wines, I always had tried to find
something with decent tastes and with reasonable price to me. Obviously, it’s all
subjective. However, in the meantime, I also looked for some objective
criteria to judge the wine taste and quality. I bought books and read magazines
to identify what the real taste of wine is. Well, that was a mistake.
Understanding all descriptions of the wine by different professionals confused
me, and most of the ingredients that they explain were even new to me. Despite
of frustration, I tried to learn them, and articulate different flavors and
aromas as if I really knew them. However, when you don’t really understand it,
it’s hard to keep pretending to do so, since you cannot go into deeper and
deeper. This experience dragged me down from wine for a while.
But, Alder’s clear views on words (jargons?) used to describe the
tastes of wine gave me at certain level of confidence to try again to learn
about it. Even though there are various ranges and descriptions of taste of
flavor and aroma, those seems to be categorized in some way.
Alder would be delighted.
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