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Catavino: Spanish Wine Tasting: Grasping Our Understanding of Spanish Wine Vocabulary

  • alexsommelier · 10 months ago
    I undestand you completely, it happend to me too, but the other way round, because spanish it´s my mother tongue, so I had to learn all the technical words in english.
  • Justin · 10 months ago
    What a great post Ivan.

    Here in Jerez they seem to speak a different language when it comes to describing the wines.

    I learned two new ones today. When a wine has been chilled and becomes slightly hazy, it is said to be "triste" and when a wine drawn straight from the butt is very bright and shiny it is "rompecopas"...
  • The Winesleuth · 10 months ago
    I feel your pain, Ivan. When I was doing a sommelier course in Buenos Aires, Arg. I ran into the same problem. Funny how you think you know a second language and then, BAM, curveball comes your way. Great post.