It is certainly enough for a wine drinker just to check that there are no problematic aromas - such as a wet cardboard aroma that comes with "corked" wine, or problematic tastes such as oxidized/vinegar tastes. But if you are like me, you may find it enjoyable and extremely challenging to identify what a wine smells like - especially when there are multiple aromas (e.g. fruit, spices, wood, herbs) in play in your glass of wine - as well as what it tastes like.
When I first started trying to identify aromas, I found out quickly how much I relied on sight along with smell. I would smell something that I new I recognized, but had trouble saying exactly what it was. It is interesting how the smell of a lemon, is different from a lemon rind, and may start to smell stronger like grapefruit at some point.
Now I take time to close my eyes and smell things that may show up in a wine blueberries, green peppers, spices, leather, (not so much the manure or cat pee) etc. in order to remember smells to identify in a wine. I even bought one of those kits with all sorts of bottles of different smells (Le Nez du Vin) - and have spent many hours trying to train my schnoz to identify as many different aroma components as I possible can.
The first 2 & 1/2 minutes or so is video from a fan to kick things off - but skip past it or just be patient, the good stuff with Gary V is there!
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