Issue #15 Today, I want to prevent you buying wine that you don’t enjoy. Being disappointed with a wine purchase is a pretty common feeling for beginners, but there’s good news. Buying bad wine is completely avoidable. Here are 4 tips that will help you enjoy your next wine purchase. They almost guarantee that you’ll […]
Author: Brian McCann
A Quick Intro Guide To Better Your Champagne Knowledge
Issue #14 Hey there, Here is the skinny of this week’s edition: Life is short. Drink Champagne. This past weekend, I went out to a fabulous dinner and we over-spent on Champagne. Guess what? It didn’t matter, because we had Champagne. It’s one of life’s greatest pleasures. So today, I’m bubbling over about all things […]
How To Find Your Perfect Wine Drinking Buddy
Wine—like most things in life—is better with somebody else. In order to grow your wine learning, you need to grow your wine tribe. The key ingredient: someone even more obsessed with wine learning than you. I was fortunate to have so many people who helped me along the way. Today, I call on another mountain metaphor: skiing […]
Learn About Grapes From Carole Meredith: A Revolutionary Scientist
Happy Friday, When it comes to wine learning, most of us feel like Ruth from Ozark. The sooner you can admit this to yourself, the better off you’ll be. Because the wine world is far too big to ever feel like you know it entirely. I talked a little about this weeks ago when explaining […]
The Three Elements of Wine Learning
Happy Friday, I’d like to share with you a big concept with you. Below, you’ll find what I call the three elements of wine (working title). I stumbled upon this notion as a way to categorize wine learning while organizing the first draft of my book. It gave my primordial goop some structure, and I […]
Start with a wine you love
Last week, I talked about one of the big fallacies of wine learning, and I ended with a promise of returning to that topic today. Start with a wine you love, and the rest will take care of itself. The wine you love. Take a moment, and think about the wine you love. Did you […]