Wine 101

“I’m really enjoying your wine column every week,” my father-in-law, Mr. W, confided over the phone, “but I just have one question.”
I braced myself.

“Sure,” I said, “Anything.”

“You know when you’re talking about how a red wine will smell like cherries,” Mr. W continued, “or a white wine will taste like vanilla or peach, well, I mean, where do those characteristics come from? It’s all juice from one fruit. A grape. How can it all taste and smell so different?” Read more