我怎样才能更多地了解葡萄酒呢（二）
How can I learn more about wine?
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网友：我写这篇答案的原因是因为我对葡萄酒有一些经验。我一生中品尝过成千上万的葡萄酒。我父亲在新泽西州开了一家小规模的葡萄酒店。我十几岁的时候每天都在那里工作。我开始了我的职业生涯后担任日常葡萄酒餐饮视频网的主持人，制作了1000多集葡萄酒内容......
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How can I learn more about wine?
我怎样才能更多地了解葡萄酒呢?
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The reason I’m writing this is because I have some experience with wine. I’ve tasted thousands and thousands of wines in my life. My father started a small wine store in New Jersey. I worked there every day when I was a teen. I started my career as the host of Wine Library TV producing more than 1000 episodes of wine content.
It’s not just about the taste of the wine, It’s how it looks, smells, and feels.
我写这篇答案的原因是因为我对葡萄酒有一些经验。我一生中品尝过成千上万的葡萄酒。我父亲在新泽西州开了一家小规模的葡萄酒店。我十几岁的时候每天都在那里工作。我开始了我的职业生涯后担任日常葡萄酒餐饮视频网的主持人，制作了1000多集葡萄酒内容。
这不仅关乎葡萄酒的味道，还关乎它的外观、气味和触感。
The first thing that I tend to do when looking at a wine is I give it a quick swirl. Always. The swirl is what aerates the wine, and gets all of the different flavors percolating. So I give it a swirl, sometimes on the table, or sometimes in my hand and what I like to do is look at the color. Color is a huge factor in tasting wine.
With a red wine, you’ll look for that really deep, dark purple or red. When you see that, it tends to make you think that there’s a little bit more complexity in the wine, a little bit more flavor.
With white wines, you see that golden color, sometimes you see the “pale white.” Usually, the darker or more saturated the color you see, the more “full-body” or flavorful and dense the wine is.
So that’s always your opening move. Take a look at the color. Do a quick swirl, get the air in, and analyze it.
When analyzing the wine, I tend to like to look at the legs.
The legs of wine are the oily residue that goes around the glass. When you have big legs, you think it’s a more “massive” wine or a wine with more alcohol or a little bit more serious. It’s a very subtle thing I like to do. It kinda tells me where the wine is on a scale of intensity. it’s just a clever little thing.
当我看葡萄酒时，我倾向于做的第一件事就是快速旋转。一直旋转使葡萄酒里面充满空气，并使所有不同的味道渗入进去。所以我给它制造一个漩涡，有时在桌子上，有时在我手里，我喜欢做的是看颜色。颜色是品尝葡萄酒的一个重要因素。
在红酒中，你会发现深紫色或红色。当你看到这一点时，它会让你觉得这酒更复杂一点，更有味道一点。
在白葡萄酒中，你会看到金黄的颜色，有时你会看到“苍白的白色”。通常，你看到的颜色越深或越饱和，葡萄酒就越“饱满”或味道更浓。
所以，这始终是你的开局之举。看看颜色和快速旋转，吸入空气，并进行分析。
分析葡萄酒时，我倾向于看“酒腿”。
“酒腿”是酒杯周围的残余。当出现大长腿的时候，你会认为这是一种更“厚重”的葡萄酒，或者是一种酒精含量更高或更质优价高的葡萄酒。这是我喜欢做的一件非常微妙的事情。它稍微可以告诉我葡萄酒的烈度，这只是一件巧妙的小技巧而已。
The next thing I do is I always give it a quick look inside, and then obviously, one of the most, if not THE MOST important part in tasting wine, is that first initial sniff.
In order to smell wine, I like to put my nose completely into the glass, which, may not be the most “politically correct” thing to do when you are trying to learn how to taste wine at a restaurant, but I’m going to tell you right now, that is the move. It’s the only way to smell wine.
Now, don’t get silly or you will just start choking, suddenly alcohol and the sugars are going to get into your nose, and it will be a very unpleasant experience. But you give it a very serious sniff. I sometimes go back to the whirl, then back into the sniff. Just from that little swirl in between those two sniffs, more flavor came in. So the more you can swirl it, the more you can sniff it. When you first give it that smell, you’re really just looking for those subtle flavors that you may have not been able to sense otherwise.
The smell is just so important. A lot of people don’t take “smell” into account at all, and it’s a huge mistake and it’s one of the factors why you’re not tasting some of the flavors that you’ve read about or you hear me mentioning.
第二步:闻闻葡萄酒
接下来我要做的是，我通常会快速地看一眼里面，那么很明显，品尝葡萄酒最重要的部分之一，如果不是最重要的部分，那么最初的气味就是最重要的部分。
为了闻到葡萄酒的味道，我喜欢把鼻子完全伸进玻璃杯里，这可能不是你在餐厅学习如何品尝葡萄酒时最“政策正确”的做法，但我现在要告诉你，这就是闻葡萄酒的唯一方法。
现在，别傻了，否则你会开始窒息，突然间酒精和糖会进入你的鼻子，这将是一种非常不愉快的经历。但你认真地嗅了嗅。我有时会再弄个漩涡，然后又重新嗅它。就在这两次嗅觉之间的小漩涡中，更多的味道扑面而来。所以，你越能旋转它，你就越能嗅到它。当你第一次闻到它的味道时，你真的只是在寻找那些你可能无法感受到的微妙味道。
气味很重要。很多人根本不考虑“气味”，这是一个巨大的错误，这就是为什么你没有品尝到一些你读到的或者你听我提到的味道的原因之一。
To really taste wine, you have to slosh it in your mouth.
It’s bringing oxygen into your mouth field, into your palate while you’re tasting the wine, it lets some of the alcohol get out and more of the flavor kind of to stay in the fruit. It’s a crucial move. You want the air is because it coats your palate, allowing your tongue to hit as many flavors as possible. It’s going to help you taste all of the different flavors in wine and give you a complete feel for the wine.
That initial blast of flavor from the wine is very crucial because that’s that upfront fruit, and it’s your first impression. You know, it’s like a first date.
It’s your very first impression it’s like, “Hey, this is what it is.” When you’re swirling in your mouth and you’re getting the flavors in, and then you go into your swallow or your spit, you’re really tasting for a mid-palate, and this is a term a lot of people don’t understand.
The best way to describe the mid-palate is the transition of flavors you’re tasting in between the first taste and that final taste. You’re going to really taste it as you’re swallowing on your palate. Now a lot of times, you won’t taste anything, and that’s because many wines are made very hollow, meaning there’s really only two flavors.
The really complex, interesting wines, and the wines that are enjoyable to me, wines like this that are better than what they’re priced at, have that exotic, interesting mid-palate, that extra flavor.
It’s a three-flavor process. It’s that initial blast when you’re tasting it as it’s swirling in your mouth as you’re about to go, and then when you spit or swallow the wine, that final flavor. It’s a three-step process for me, and that’s really how I like to taste wine.
第三步：品尝葡萄酒
要真正品尝葡萄酒，你必须让酒在嘴里晃动。
当你品尝葡萄酒时，它将氧气带入你的口腔，进入你的味蕾，它能让一些酒精排出，让更多的味道留在水果里。这是一个至关重要的举措。你想要空气是因为它覆盖了你的味蕾，让你的舌头接触到尽可能多的味道。它会帮助你品尝葡萄酒中所有不同的味道，让你对葡萄酒有一个完整的感觉。
葡萄酒最初的味道是非常重要的，因为那是最初的水果，是你的第一印象。就像第一次约会一样。
这是你的第一印象，就像是，“嘿，就是这样。”当你在嘴里旋转，你把味道吸进去，然后你咽下去或吐出来，你真的是在品尝中味觉，这是一个很多人都不理解的术语。
描述中段的口感最好的方式是你品尝的味道在第一口和最后一口之间的转换。当你吞咽时，你会真正地尝到它的味道。很多时候，你尝不出任何味道，这是因为很多葡萄酒都是中空的，也就是说实际上只有两种味道。
真正复杂、有趣的葡萄酒，以及让我感到愉悦的葡萄酒，像这样的葡萄酒比它们的价格更好，具有异国情调、有趣的中段的口感和额外的味道。
这是一个三味的过程。当你品尝它时，它在你即将离开的时候在你的嘴里打转，然后当你吐出或吞下葡萄酒时，它就是最初的味道。对我来说，这是一个三步走的过程，这正是我喜欢品尝葡萄酒的方式。
One of the final things I like to do is after I taste, I go right back to the smell.
It ties in all the flavors. You can get so much flavor from smelling the wine then tasting it and then back into the smell. It’s really kind of the pattern I like to stay in, it helps me put everything together and get that final flavor that I’m looking for.
If there is one thing you leave within your how to taste wine checklist, it’s to use your nose. Get into it. A lot of people just swirl and then get right into drinking and tasting. Obviously, by the finish, you’re going to know something about the wine, but focus on the nose, focus on the mid-palate, and I think you’re going to be well on your way to tasting wine in a different way!
第四步：把它们结合在一起
我喜欢做的最后一件事是在我尝过之后，我会直接回到味道上。
这种方法适合所有口味。你可以从闻一闻葡萄酒，然后品尝它，然后再回到味道中获得非常多的味道。这真的是我喜欢的一种模式，它帮助我把所有的东西放在一起，得到我想要的最终味道。
如果你在如何品尝葡萄酒的清单中留下了一件事，那就是用鼻子—沉浸到酒杯中。很多人只是打转，然后直接开始喝酒和品尝。很明显，到了最后，你会对葡萄酒有所了解，但要关注鼻子，关注中段的口感，我认为你会以不同的方式品尝葡萄酒！
I moved into wine from another career and went through the same process you are describing. My first piece of advice is to embrace the thrill of tasting something new or something newly recognizable - it should never go away, but the experience changes the longer you taste and study. I’d bet many of the pros on this page would agree that there is a certain nostalgia for tasting wines the way you do now - full of wonder and curiosity and lessons to learn.
As I started to work in wine and felt the need to retain more than I could write down, I started filming winemakers who would answer my questions. It’s a passion project that has grown overtime and we’ve been featured on The Pour, among other spots. Today we have over 700 short videos posted on our YouTube channel “Ask a Winemaker”.
我从另一个职业转入葡萄酒行业，经历了你描述的相同过程。我的第一条建议是拥抱品尝新鲜事物或新发现的事物的刺激——它应该永远不会消失，但你品尝和学习的时间越长，这种体验就会改变。我敢打赌，这篇文章里的许多专业人士都会同意，你现在这样品尝葡萄酒会有一种怀旧的感觉——充满了好奇和好奇心，值得学习。
当我开始在葡萄酒行业工作时，我觉得有必要记住比我能写下来的更多的东西，我开始拍摄那些回答我问题的酿酒师。随着时间的推移，发现这是一个充满激情的项目，我们被The Pour和其他地方推荐过。今天，我们在油管频道“Ask a Winemaker”上发布了700多个短视频。
Taste! Taste! Taste! The best way to learn and familiarize yourself with lots of different wines, regions, and varietals is to drink them.
That being said, you obviously won't learn a whole lot by slugging back glass after glass alone. Here are a list of ways to taste a variety of wines:
1) Find a local wine shop that offers a large variety of wines from various regions and buy a mixed case. Read the descxtions or ask a salesperson for recommendations form various regions. Only pick up stuff that fits with your price range. As you try each bottle, take a moment to look up some facts about the wine region in a wine book, Atlas or online.
2) Find a wine shop or wine bar that offers a variety of tastings. Be adventurous and non-judgmental. Try wines you know little to nothing about. You may be surprised by your tastes . Many people have told me over the years: "I never thought I'd like a Rose" or "I don't even like white wine, but this is great!"
味道、味道、还是味道；学习和熟悉许多不同的葡萄酒、地区和品种的最好方法是喝它们。
话虽如此，光靠一杯又一杯地喝，你显然不会学到很多东西。以下是品尝各种葡萄酒的方法:
1、 找一家当地的葡萄酒店，提供来自不同地区的多种葡萄酒，并购买混合葡萄酒。阅读描述或向销售人员征求不同地区的建议。只挑选符合你价格范围的东西。当你尝试每一瓶葡萄酒时，花点时间在葡萄酒书籍、图集或在线上查找有关葡萄酒地区的一些事实。
2、找一家提供各种品酒服务的葡萄酒店或酒吧。要有冒险精神，不要妄自菲薄。试试你所知甚少或一无所知的葡萄酒。你可能会对自己的口味感到惊讶。多年来，很多人告诉我：“我从没想过我会喜欢玫瑰红葡萄酒”或“我甚至不喜欢白葡萄酒，但这太棒了！”
4) Keep a journal of tasting notes. As ordinary as this may sound, by writing a few notes you will commit what you learned to memory. Also, practice describing wines and expanding your wine vocabulary. This will help you to have more sophisticated and in depth conversations about wines.
As far as references go, my favorite place for free knowledge and reviews is Gary Vaynerchuk's website http://winelibrary.com/ , other good sites include:
www.winespectator.com
www.erobertparker.com
http://www.wineaccess.com/expert/tanzer/static.html?m=3545
but nothing beats your own tasting experiences!
The key points here are to try new wines, learn a few facts about what you are drinking, and have fun doing it. Do these things, and you will be surprised how much you will know about wine in a short period of time.
3、和一群朋友来个主题酒之夜：以某一地区、品种或葡萄酒类型为主题。有些人喜欢有价格上限或范围，但这取决于你和你的朋友。让每个人都带上符合标准的葡萄酒。穿着可以随意，也可以正式。无论是否盲品，正餐或清淡的开胃菜都可以，一道便饭也可以。重点是聚在一起，品尝葡萄酒，并与一群同行讨论葡萄酒。
4） 记下品尝笔记。尽管这听起来很普通，但只要写几个字的笔记，你就会把你学到的东西记下来。此外，练习描述葡萄酒并扩展葡萄酒词汇。这将有助于你就葡萄酒进行更复杂和深入的对话。
就参考文献而言，我最喜欢的免费知识和评论的地方是加里·瓦内尔丘克的网站http://winelibrary.com/，其他好的网站包括：
www.erobertparker.com
http://www.wineaccess.com/expert/tanzer/static.html?m=3545
但没有什么能比得上你自己的品尝体验！
这里的关键点是尝试新酒，了解一些关于你正在喝的酒事实，并享受其中的乐趣。做这些事情，你会惊讶于在短时间内你对葡萄酒的了解有多深。
What's the best way to learn something?
An old teacher of mine told me a story that stuck with me the rest of my life:
A pottery teacher split her class into two halves.
To the first half she said, "You will spend the semester studying pottery, planning, designing, and creating your perfect pot. At the end of the semester, there will be a competition to see whose pot is the best".
To the other half she said, "You will spend your semester making lots of pots. Your grade will be based on the number of completed pots you finish. At the end of the semester, you'll also have the opportunity to enter your best pot into a competition."
The first half of the class threw themselves into their research, planning, and design. Then they set about creating their one, perfect pot for the competition.
The second half of the class immediately grabbed fistfulls of clay and started churning out pots. They made big ones, small ones, simple ones, and intricate ones.
At the end of class, both halves were invited to enter their most perfect pot into the competition. Once the votes were counted, all of the best pots came from the students that were tasked with quantity. The practice they gained made them significantly better potters than the planners on a quest for a single, perfect pot.
In life, the best way to learn a skill, is to make a lot of pots.
学习东西的最好方法是什么？
我的一位老老师给我讲了一个故事，这个故事让我终生难忘：
一位陶艺老师把她的班级分成两半。
对其中的一半，她说:“你将用整个学期学习陶艺，规划、设计和创造你完美的陶罐。学期结束时，会有一场比赛，看谁的陶罐是最好的。”
对于另一半，她说：“你将在这个学期制作很多陶罐。你的分数将取决于你完成的壶的数量。在学期结束时，你还将有机会参加比赛。”
班上的前一半人全神贯注于研究、规划和设计。然后他们开始为比赛创造一个完美的陶罐。
班上的另一般人立即抓起一大把粘土，开始搅拌陶罐。他们制作了大的、小的、简单的和复杂的。
学期结束时，两边都被邀请进入他们最完美的比赛。计票后，所有最好的陶罐都来自被要求数量的学生。他们所获得的实践使他们在追求一个完美的陶罐的过程中比规划师做得更好。
在生活中，学习一项技能的最好方法是做很多陶罐。
I've learned most of what I know about wine by tasting... especially going tasting at wineries, ordering wines by the glass in restaurants, parties, etc. But I think the most I learned about wine in a concentrated effort was by reading the book "Drink This: Wine Made Simple" by Dara Grumdahl http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345511654 If I hadn't already tasted most of the wines she talks about, I'd have done the tasting exercises, too. I read them all and could follow along pretty well based on memory which to me was a testament to her knowledge of the varietals she talked about.
Sometimes our inertia gets in our way of learning new things, especially if it involves a trip to the wine store where you can feel intimidated and overwhelmed as a novice. One way to get exposure to different wines is to join a wine club (or two or three). Often people join winery wine clubs because they love a producer's wine so much, but you can also join a "retail" wine club where a wine store sends you top sextions at less-than-retail prices. There are thousands of wine clubs out there so you might try http://www.wineclubreviews.net to get started.
P.S. Like several others on the page, I'm including my own website in this reply (WineClubReviews.net)
我从品酒中学到了关于葡萄酒的大部分知识，尤其是在酒庄品酒，在饭店、聚会等场合是按杯点酒。但我想，我最集中精力了解葡萄酒的是读了达拉·格鲁姆达尔的《饮品：葡萄酒变得简单》一书，如果我没有品尝过她所说的大部分葡萄酒，我也会做品尝练习。我把它们都读了一遍，根据我的记忆，我能很好地理解，对我来说，这证明了她对她所说的品种的知识。
有时候，我们的惰性会阻碍我们学习新事物，尤其是当我们去一家葡萄酒店时，作为新手，你会感到害怕和不知所措。接触不同葡萄酒的一种方法是加入葡萄酒俱乐部（或两三个）。通常人们加入酒庄葡萄酒俱乐部是因为他们非常喜欢某个生产商的葡萄酒，但你也可以加入一个“零售”葡萄酒俱乐部，在那里，葡萄酒商店会以低于零售价格的价格向你发送顶级葡萄酒。有成千上万的葡萄酒俱乐部，所以你可以从这里开始可以尝试：http://www.wineclubreviews.net。
附注:和其他几个人一样，我在这个回复中包括了我自己的网站(WineClubReviews.net)
I'm a huge fan of drinking wines with knowledgable friends who can share their opinions, and their palates. Comparing notes about what you smell and taste with experienced people adds a lot of value. Especially if one of them is a sommelier (and one of the group I taste with is a certified sommelier).
I also like to read books extensively, and one I'd recommend highly is What to Drink with What you Eat because it talks about food and drink pairing, explaining why things work together or not - and it has interviews and quotes with many sommeliers, restaurant owners and chefs. There are a variety of wine references - The Wine Bible, Sotheby's book on wine, and others - some are simple and others are very deep. Pick the level you like. The Windows on the World wine course is an easy introduction for instance.
In addition, I also love to search for the wine name and year and then read the online retailer's wine reviews, which often also have the reviews from wine maker, from Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and others. No cost, and occasionally you also find a retailer who you want to purchase wine from online! You can do the same with cellartracker.com and read MANY reviews by non-professionals. I review many of the wines I taste there for instance, as well as on my own wine blog.
我非常喜欢和有知识的朋友一起喝酒，他们可以分享自己的观点和口味。与有经验的人比较你闻到的味道会增加很多价值。特别是如果其中一位是侍酒师（和我一起品尝的人中有一个是认证侍酒师）。
我还喜欢广泛阅读书籍，我强烈推荐的一本书是《吃什么喝什么》，它解释了为什么这些东西能放一起，或者不能放一起——它还采访了许多侍酒师、餐厅老板和厨师，并引用了他们的话。有各种各样的葡萄酒参考—《葡萄酒圣经》、苏富比关于葡萄酒的书等等——有些很简单，有些很深刻。选择你喜欢的级别。例如，世界之窗的葡萄酒课程是一个简单的入门课程。
此外，我还喜欢搜索葡萄酒名称和年份，然后阅读在线零售商的葡萄酒评论，这些评论通常也有来自酿酒师、葡萄酒倡导者、葡萄酒观察家、葡萄酒爱好者等的评论。无需付费，偶尔你也会找到一个你想从网上购买葡萄酒的零售商！你可以通过cellartracker.com网站做同样的事情，或者阅读许多非专业人士的评论。例如，我回顾了我在那里品尝的许多葡萄酒，以及我自己的葡萄酒博客。
What are the 10 most important things to know about wine?
There is a lot of information to be known about wine, despite it being rather confusing.
Here is some practical advice:
#1
One of the most common is to be aware of the skin of wine. Because it is connected to the fermentation process, drinking wine containing the skin is a lot healthier than drinking the typical, unfiltered wine. The wine can be processed into the skin-free wine.
Some people like to drink wine in a hot day. If wine is hot, it will lose a lot of its health benefits. Too much exposure to higher temperatures will eventually spoil the wine's taste. Store it in a moderate temperature around 15 degrees Celsius.
#2
Alcohol Content
Alcohol content is important so that you know some wines are much stronger than others. The naturally appear in the form of “legs” on the wine glass. Typically it is confused with quality however “legs” do not have a direct correlation.
关于葡萄酒，最重要的10件事是什么？
尽管葡萄酒令人困惑，但仍有很多关于葡萄酒的信息需要了解。
以下是一些实用建议：
1、其中一个最常见的是注意葡萄酒的表层薄膜。因为它与发酵过程有关，所以喝含表层薄膜的葡萄酒比喝典型的未经过滤的葡萄酒健康得多。葡萄酒可以加工成无表层薄膜葡萄酒。
有些人喜欢在炎热的日子里喝酒。如果葡萄酒是热的，它将失去许多健康益处。过多地暴露在高温下最终会破坏葡萄酒的味道。将其储存在15摄氏度左右的温和温度中。
2、酒精含量
酒精含量很重要，所以你知道有些酒比其他酒浓得多。它们自然以“酒腿”的形式出现在酒杯上。通常情况下，它与质量混淆，但“酒腿”并没有直接关联。
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Learn from the experts
There are thousands of facts about wines, their regions and histories. Wine is considered one of the oldest known alcoholic beverages of our existence. I would recommend you stop by a local wine bar or wine store and check out a local wine tasting to see what wines you like and dislike. Learn about the specific wines you prefer and start from there.
Wine is an alcoholic drink made of fermented grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it into alcohol. Different varieties of grapes and the manner in which they are grown, the types of yeast used, and the winemaking techniques employed, all influence the qualities and characteristics of the resulting wines.
There are hundreds of varieties of grapes, and thousands of possible combinations. Vitis vinifera (European grape) are the most widely planted, grapes are produced in virtually every country of the world.
3、向专家学习
关于葡萄酒、其地域和历史，有成千上万的事实。葡萄酒被认为是我们已知的最古老的酒精饮料之一。我建议你去当地的酒吧或葡萄酒店，看看当地的葡萄酒品鉴会，看看你喜欢和不喜欢什么葡萄酒。了解您喜欢的特定葡萄酒，然后从那里开始。
葡萄酒是由发酵葡萄制成的酒精饮料。葡萄的天然化学平衡使其在不添加糖、酸、酶或其他营养物质的情况下发酵。酵母消耗葡萄中的糖并将其转化为酒精。不同品种的葡萄及其种植方式、使用的酵母类型以及所采用的酿酒技术都会影响所酿造葡萄酒的质量和特性。
有数百种葡萄品种，以及数千种可能的组合。葡萄（欧洲葡萄）种植最广泛，而且几乎世界上每个国家都有葡萄生产。
The simplest way ….. is not by just reading but by doing. But it is expensive!
So begin by buying wine. Find out what you like and - every bit as important - share that bottle with friends over a meal. Have them bring one bottle each to the meal. You may not drink all of each - not so much an issue as they can take the leftovers home. Don’t worry about what people say, drink what you like. Over time your tastes will develop (note, not change, develop), but thinking about each wine as you open it , with food and that sharing.
This is where I started - I began a cellar in 1966 - then soon decided I wanted to work in the wine industry …
There are so many books on wine - probably tens of thousands for it is a subject that has fascinated mankind for 2,000 years or more. The Greeks wrote about it, then the Romans. However, wine didn’t always taste - then - as it does today.
There is a video tasting series by James Suckling - which I think would be a good place to start. Have a look at that. It doesn’t talk down to people nor go off into flights of fancy.
最简单的方法，不是仅仅通过阅读，而是通过实践。但代价很高昂！
所以从买葡萄酒开始吧。找出你喜欢的酒，并且——同样重要的是——在用餐时与朋友分享。让他们每人带一瓶来吃饭。你可能不会把每一种都喝光——这不是什么大问题，因为他们可以把剩余的回家。别在意别人说什么，喜欢喝什么就喝什么。随着时间的推移，你的口味会发展(注意，不是改变，是发展)，当你打开每一瓶酒的时候，和食物一起分享。
这就是我开始的地方——我在1966年开了一个酒窖——然后很快决定我想在葡萄酒行业工作。
关于葡萄酒的书太多了—可能有上万本，因为这是一个让人类着迷了2000年或更长时间的主题。希腊人写过，罗马人写过。然而，当时葡萄酒的味道并不总是像今天这样。
詹姆斯·萨克林（James Suckling）有一个视频品尝系列——我认为这是一个很好的开始。看看这个。它不会居高临下地对人说话，也不会凭空想象。