Ever since our resident wine maker, Tammi Ramsey, recommended 1WineDude as her “favorite real wine blog”, I have been hooked on the gold mine of information his website has. 1WineDude brings to wine education the humor, entertainment, and humility that the industry often lacks. If wine is such a fun thing to enjoy, shouldn’t learning about it be equally fun and stress free? That’s when I decided to give his eBook a try.

Let me start with a warning- This could very well be the eight bucks you spend that kick starts your journey to becoming a wine expert. Will you be an expert after reading it? No. And you shouldn’t spend your hard earned money on any book that claims you will be. You become an expert by tasting wines, not by reading about them. And that is exactly what 1WineDude preaches in his book, How to Taste Like a Wine Geek: The 1WineDude Wine Tasting Guide.

1WineDude’s book concentrates on giving you a basic understanding of what you need in order to successfully develop an understanding of your wine likes and dislikes. Let’s face it, most people will not become Master Sommeliers, nor do they desire to. What most people want is to be able to more consistently pick wines they will enjoy and less frequently get stuck accidentally picking a loser. We all want to have the confidence to go into a wine shop or restaurant and describe exactly what it is we want in a wine.

Have you ever stared at a wine list in fear? Have you stood in front of a wall of wine and had a foggy haze take over your mind? It’s amazing how, even with a fully trained staff at restaurants and wine shops, most of us have no hope of getting the help we need to choose a good bottle. As 1WineDude notes in his book, there are over 7000 wine brands marketing several varietals each. It’s entirely possible to not recognize a single option off a wine list; What do you do then?

In a short (and entertaining) eBook, 1WineDude lays out simple steps you need to start building your own personal “wine vocabulary”. The wine vocabulary is the backbone of any good wine recommendation; It allows you to tell the server at the restaurant or the wine clerk at the shop exactly what your likes and dislikes are. These people sell the wine, they are trained in it, and they have probably tasted it. You, on the other hand, have never even heard of it (which is not a big deal considering the tens of thousands of options out there), and could benefit from a good recommendation. Your wine vocabulary is the key to linking your taste preferences to their first-hand experience.

I honestly can’t believe how easy 1WineDude makes the process of building your wine vocab. I thought it would be hard- It’s not. Read the book, taste the wine, become the expert.

Purchase the book by Joe Roberts- 1WineDude:

Amazon Kindle, Lulu eBook, Payloadz.com eBook, or the Printed Version on Cafepress.com.

Cheers!!

Matthew Delaney
The Wine’dUp