{"id":2453642,"date":"2020-01-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=319593"},"modified":"2020-01-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:00:00","slug":"how-to-drink-wine-pay-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/how-to-drink-wine-pay-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Drink Wine? Pay attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.74\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-319593-173\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-1024x768.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Kelly J. Hayes | Nestled in a winter's snow are three different pinot noir wines. Each comes from a different California growing region, each is made by a different winemaker and each reflects a different style. But all three of these pinots are the product of one company, the Duckhorn Wine Company. Try each and, if you pay attention, you will unlock different flavors, and yes, stories.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"2.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"16\">\n<p><strong>Nestled in a winter&#8217;s snow are three different pinot noir wines. Each comes from a different California growing region, each is made by a different winemaker and each reflects a different style. But all three of these pinots are the product of one company, the Duckhorn Wine Company. Try each and, if you pay attention, you will unlock different flavors, and yes, stories.<\/strong><br \/>Kelly J. Hayes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-1024x768.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Nestled in a winter's snow are three different pinot noir wines. Each comes from a different California growing region, each is made by a different winemaker and each reflects a different style. But all three of these pinots are the product of one company, the Duckhorn Wine Company. Try each and, if you pay attention, you will unlock different flavors, and yes, stories.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-1-1024x671.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto | Red, ros\u00e9 and white wine in crystal glasses.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Red, ros\u00e9 and white wine in crystal glasses.<\/strong><br \/>Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-1-1024x671.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Red, ros\u00e9 and white wine in crystal glasses.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-2-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto | Extreme close up of sommelier evaluating red wine in wine glass at tasting.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Extreme close up of sommelier evaluating red wine in wine glass at tasting.<\/strong><br \/>Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-2-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Extreme close up of sommelier evaluating red wine in wine glass at tasting.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto | girl holding a wine glass surrounded by grapevines\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-2\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><strong>girl holding a wine glass surrounded by grapevines<\/strong><br \/>Getty Images\/iStockphoto | iStockphoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/wineink-atw-012320-4-3-1024x682.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"girl holding a wine glass surrounded by grapevines\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/how-to-drink-winepay-attention\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/how-to-drink-winepay-attention\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Maybe you find the wine world to be a bit pretentious. And maybe the idea of some guy who writes a wine column telling you \u201chow to drink wine\u201d ranks for you at the top of the pretentious scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">After all, four words will do the trick, right? \u201cUnscrew, pour, swig, swallow.\u201d Done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">OK, I\u2019m kidding. But the point is everyone can, and should, drink wine, under cork or screw cap, sipped or swigged and swallowed in any way that makes them happy. Taste, after all, lies on the tongue of the beholder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">But having consumed my share of wine (most great, some good and some, occasionally, plonk) and, having had a chance to taste with winemakers who have made the wines of their passion, with sommeliers who make the study of wines their obsession and with collectors who drink to gauge the value of their holdings, I have learned a thing or two about the process of drinking. Or tasting, if you will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">And the best advice I ever received on how to drink a glass of wine is the simplest: Pay attention. That\u2019s right, just two words from Master Sommelier Jay Fletcher over a dozen years ago in a wine seminar changed the way I tasted, and thought about, wine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">By paying attention to what I was drinking, by stopping long enough to read the label front and back as I opened a wine, by caring what kind of glass I was using, by being conscious of the temperature of the wine I was pouring, by looking at the color of the wine, by considering where the wine came from as I swirled it, I had a whole world of possibility and engagement open up to me. And that is all before I even put my nose in to inhale the aromas or tilted the glass for the first sip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Jay\u2019s advice has stayed with me all of these years and has become a part of my drinking DNA. I don\u2019t even think about \u201cthinking about it.\u201d Whenever a bottle of wine is opened and I am about to have a glass, my entire being simply pays attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Writer Malcolm Gladwell espoused a theory once in his book \u201cOutliers: The Story of Success\u201d that he called the \u201c10,000 Hour Rule.\u201d It basically says, and I am paraphrasing, that if you practice something for 10,000 hours you will master it. There are flaws of course, and over the past decade other writers have written 10,000 rebukes pointing out those flaws. But as an arbitrary number my guess is it would come pretty close to the number of glasses of wine I have paid attention to over the course of, say, the last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Has it made me an expert? Hardly. I don\u2019t possess the natural palate of some who can decipher and define the myriad smells and tastes found in wines with little more than minor vintage variation. I don\u2019t pretend to have mastered the skills of trained tasters, like the aforementioned Jay Fletcher MS, who can examine a glass like a lawyer examines the law and make calculated deductions about the varietal, its place of origin, the person who made it and the year the grapes that are in the glass were grown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">But today I have a pretty good grasp on the world of wine. I likely know it better than I know anything else in my life, with the possible exception of football. And my deep appreciation for all that wine represents, from geology to geography, from climate to history, and especially sociology, has had a markedly positive impact on my life. All because I have paid attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">I have a friend, one who is in a position to afford not just good, but really good wines. \u201cAfter three sips, nobody knows what they are drinking anymore,\u201d is his refrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Though generous with his wine, he is convinced that from Burgundy to the Barossa, from Napa to New Zealand, all wine is just fermented grape juice. And you know what, he is correct. All wine is a natural product that has its origins in grapes. But if you pay attention, the complexity and the diversity and, well, the magic of such a simple product can change the way you feel about wine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Back to the start. How should you drink wine? There are no rules. It\u2019s an individual endeavor. But if you take a moment to stop, look, smell and taste, and give some thought to what you\u2019ve seen, smelled and tasted, chances are you will have a more enjoyable wine experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">Just pay attention?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/how-to-drink-winepay-attention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled in a winter&#8217;s snow are three different pinot noir wines. Each comes from a different California growing region, each is made by a different winemaker and each reflects a different style. But all three of these pinots are the product of one company, the Duckhorn Wine Company. 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