Acidity in Wine

Acidity in Wine

Steve Johnson-Stott

How can you determine if a wine has high or low acidity in it? What does it taste like, what wine is high acidity common in? Tasting acidity in wine gives you the sense of tasting something tangy, something sour. It causes you to salivate and you can feel it at the back of your tongue, your throat and traveling down your esophagus as you swallow. Acidity also helps wine to age. If a wine is high in acid it has the potential to age longer than usual, particularly with white wine. See our take on acidity in this episode of The...

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Play SOMM Blinders game virtually on computer or mobile

Virtual Game of SOMM Blinders

Carlos Bradley

It's 2020 and we're in the middle of a pandemic. You might be in lockdown, or there might be strict rules where you are about who you can and can't see. So how do you have wine nights with your friends? For that matter, how do you have a blind tasting game night with friends?  We've been thinking about this and we've come up with a way to bring Blinders to you at home. There are a few obstacles, like making sure everyone has the same wine, and their own deck of Blinders, but nothing we can't handle. It's best if...

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SOMM Blinders game tasting note cards

Playing Blinders When You Know Nothing About Wine

Carlos Bradley

So you've just started to enjoy wine and you want to learn more. How do you begin to learn the tastes of each wine, how do you differentiate between them, particularly when one has just been poured in front of you and you don't know what it is?  SOMM Blinders Game can be quite daunting to the novice wine drinker. When I played my first game I was incredibly nervous, playing alongside people who had been drinking wine for longer than I've been alive, not to mention the two that work in wine, one being my manager at work.  Despite the knowledge we...

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