It seems that so much is said about tasting wine, with its bouquets and tannins, legs and leather, that it can be hard to work out what people are on about — and just how serious they are. For those who’d like to understand more, the subject can seem at once so opaque, so vast and so arcane that even trying to work out where to start can be intimidating. But wine is one of those things in relation to which a little incremental knowledge tends to have exponentially large effects on how one enjoys a good glass or two of pinot noir. That’s just a part of wine’s magic.
