Wine Connoisseur

A few weeks ago I started attending a 5 week wine tasting course - excuse me, it's a wine "profiling" course as it is much more than tasting. It is led by one of the 257 Masters of Wine in the world. See some more details about the course here.

I decided that it would be good to learn a bit about wine as I really didn't know anything. The course has been very interesting but so far I've learned that I don't have an extremely sophisticated pallate. I'm taking the course with two friends from work - Paul and Jay. Jay seems to know his stuff a bit, but Paul and I have trouble distinguishing what aromas the wines are from the aroma wheel - "fresh cut grass", "tomato leaf", "mellon". It has still been a great course keeping my interest for the 2 hours as I've learned a good bit about different wines. So far we've learned about the aromas (of white wines), learned about the different types of grapes, taken a factory tour in Kumeu River, learned of the astringency of red wines, etc. I feel slightly more sophisticated but still have a couple of weeks to go to get my diploma...