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Gnothi Wine School
The scripts and voices for this show are made with AI. It teaches wine from the first sip to an intermediate level, with Oregon's Willamette Valley as home ground. The course starts with tasting, so you can describe a wine's structure and recognize a faulty bottle. It then follows the grape from vineyard to bottle and moves on to sparkling and other special styles, the major grapes, labels and the laws behind them, storing, serving and pairing wine with food, the world's wine regions, and how…
Episodes
- Gnothi Wine School
When a Bottle Goes Wrong
The final tasting lesson covers six common wine faults, how to tell them from deliberate styles, and what to do with a bad bottle. It then turns to wildfire…
- Gnothi Wine School
Where Wine's Smells Come From
How to trace a wine's aromas to the grape, the winery or age, then judge its quality and write a four-part tasting note. Ricochet's Holmes Gap Pinot…
- Gnothi Wine School
The Rest of the Palate
How to judge tannin, alcohol, body and finish, and how all six parts of structure combine into one tasting note. Also why thin-skinned Willamette Pinot noir is…
- Gnothi Wine School
Sweetness and Acidity
How to taste sweetness and acidity, why they mask each other, and how their balance forms a wine's first structure. Also why the cool Willamette Valley…
- Gnothi Wine School
The First Glass
A first lesson in wine that opens with a map of the course, then shows how fermentation and winemaking choices produce the seven main families, followed by a…