Learning how to taste? 

Sounds like an odd concept right? How to taste!? I know how thank you very much.
Tasting is an automatic process, it comes the moment anything touches our tongues and tickles our sense of smell. But how often do you know what you are tasting? Well that's a question that challenges wine geeks on a near daily basis. Learning to discern aromas and flavours such as the difference between lemon and grapefruit is a long road, and an essential one when it comes to being able to identify the character of a wine. 

Well this book offers an alternative. @nickjacksn offers an alternative approach which emphasises how the structure of a wine can be just as much of an identifier as its flavours. This would include things like the feeling of the tannins, or the way the acidity presents itself. 

It's an intriguing approach and one that initially I was a bit unsure about due to its alternative approach. But I have to say, reading this book has opened my eyes. The amount of times now that I have b…