heard it through the grapevine
It’s OK to not know heaps about wine. To never have considered that a glass of vino could be ‘cheeky’, ‘flamboyant’ or ‘chewy’. Don’t let the glass-sniffers and bucket-spitters make you feel inferior! But if you’d like to know more about choosing a good drop, and think ‘terroir’ is a type of small dog, this article is for you: our ultimate no-fuckwittery guide to wine appreciation.
WHAT IS WINE, ANYWAY? Let’s start at the beginning. (You’ve got to crawl before you can spit.) Wine is normally made from fermented grapes, although technically, you can make rice wine, plum wine, cherry wine and pomegranate wine, too – any
