Go Wine Tasting

“The tasting began like most do: a welcome, a smile, a glass of something crisp. But the vibe? Way more relaxed than I expected. No pressure to pretend I knew what I was doing. No judgment. Just people sharing wine and stories. I took a sip and let it sit for a moment. I wasn’t thinking about flavor notes or aroma wheels. I was just… there. And honestly? That felt rare. That felt good. Somewhere between the second and third pour, it happened. The sun shifted through the trees, someone laughed nearby, and I realized I hadn’t looked at my phone in over an hour. I wasn’t thinking about what came next or what I was missing. I was just sitting, sipping, and feeling, actually feeling.”

“The moment I stepped into the Kolar family’s cellar was a moment that felt like I had stepped into some other dimension. In a way, it was, at least for me, an entry into a whole new world. The world of wine. The meeting with Mr Kolar, the tasting of their family wine and the stories through which he unobtrusively taught me actually changed my attitudes from the ground up.”

“It was my wife and my first anniversary and we decided to go to sonoma and do a day of winery/vineyard tastings. We arranged a car service and they picked the wineries we went to and the first one absolutely blew me away. B Wise winery. We had a private tasting in their guest house which was located in their onsite cave system. We toured the vineyard first and tasted grapes straight off the vine. What really stood out to me was wine making wasnt some snobby endeavor. These guys are farmers at their core. Then when we went for the tasting we told our guide that it was our first anniversary and he took us through the tasting and then we basically did a second tasting with verticals of the wines we had already tried. He got us absolutely plastered on delicious wine and it was where i first encountered tannat, my current favorite varietal.”

“Let me paint a picture. You enter a building, are given a wine glass, and are dazzled by the many tables ready to pour small amounts of different wines from various wineries. There are reds, whites, rosés, and all kinds of other deliciousness you may never have heard of. Moving fairly quickly between tables, and offered a plethora of different kinds of wines, things can get messy pretty quickly.”

“They served us the first two wines together with the recommendation that we drink them cold – and I, perhaps for the first time, realized the importance of an ice bucket. Even though it wasn’t particularly hot inside, the wine did get warm pretty quickly and all the wines lost their magic once they were tepid.”