Red Wine Vocabulary | Wine Folly 

A mnemonic rule for the six traits: if you drink too much wine, you’ll get FAT ABS (Fruit quality, Acidity, Tannins, Alcohol, Body, Sweetness). Nice video!

Having a wine vocabulary is a seriously important process to a person's wine development. I've been drinking wine since I was 15, forty years ago. My parents were very liberal and had no hang ups about it. I have the Bacchus in me. My wine journey is almost entirely self taught but we're always learning. I've seen confident, well paid and powerful individuals reduced to jelly when asking for a wine recommendation in a wine store. (It's the same with whisky too.) They have no language to express themselves and find it very socially awkward. Many of my friends and colleagues laugh at the perceived pretentiousness of tasting notes but appreciate that I understand wine at another level. In Britain you're a wine 'snob' if you like good wine. Unfortunately, that is a barrier that holds many people back from enjoying good wine. I'm not talking about Grand Cru stuff but a nice bottle of £15 red from the local supermarket. For me, enjoying wine is about enjoying life. Having a simple understanding of the basics is a solid foundation. Good video. WT

Madeline has always been the best teacher for giving fun, simple, practical advice for how and why we experience wines the way we do. Please, if you have the chance, get into Wine Folly. So much good stuff.

You can actually apply these terms to people. Sweet (outgoing) vs dry, friuty (idealistic) vs down-to-earth, tannic (takes time to adjust to) vs easy-going, alcoholic (strong) vs light (feeble), full-bodied (chubby) vs light-bodied (skinny). 😀

Absolutely loved this video for the way you explained and presented everything, thank you.

appreciate your contribution to this world. I need to re-watch this every other month. Thank you!

This was great! I loved the different 'testing' methods she used. Very insightful

I need to rewatch this every few months. Thank you

Absolutely love this video! So informative for new wine lovers to explain the sensations they are experiencing!

Very enjoyable and a great springboard forward into the subject. Well presented, thanks Madeline. Subscribed.

Really cool lesson, with some chuckles along the way. Thank you & cheers 🍷

This is the best information on wine !! I have wine videos that I bought and there is no comparison to what I learned from just two episodes!

I just discovered you today, sorry i am so late to this party. I found you searching today for videos on how to better understand AND pronounce French wines in preparation for our 2022 vacation (assuming Covid had gone the way of the Dodo bird by then). Enjoying them all...you rock. Thanks

If this video was titled wine 101 for beginners it would get the views it deserves! Well done so great with the examples!

Love the examples you gave because it helps actually tasting it to know the words to properly describe 👏🏾👏🏾

I've become a bonafide Madeline superfan! Thanks for sharing. They are a tremendous help and they just happen to be delightful.

Reds are still a mystery to me, so I am going to taste lots of them over the next few weeks to get acquainted! Thanks for the helpful video🙏

This video is brilliant. Thanks!!

So so helpful! Thank you!

Love the content on your channel and I like your sense of humor. I'm a new sub and I hit that subscribe button while I was drinking a glass of red wine. Thanks, Madeline.

This is the wine channel I needed in my life. 🍷

Appreciate your books and video's they make Wine more fun and understandable

This is perfection. Loved tasting examples. More of these please

awesome, both basic and advanced, wine lecturing. Thanks for sharing :)

Good descriptions on how to single out each property!

You're really a wonderful educator! Thank you for your work!

Thanks for sharing all the information ! Best regards from Argentina Buenos Aires 👏👏👏👏👏 l love u.

Great video. This clear some confusion up for me!

Good, good form of explanation!!

Thank you that was insightful.

Enjoy your videos. Love Cabernet....Great info.

This is the exact video I've been searching for on youtube.

Thank you for the great video!

Well done Madeline!

Excellent video!

What a clever, informative, and entertaining video! Thanks, Madeline!

This is one of the most useful tasting videos I've ever seen. Thanks!

Nice! Thanks for this

Very informative!

i liked your video so much!

Fantastic your video!

Thanks for the interesting video 👍👏. I live in the biggest wine producing canton in Switzerland. True, it takes time to learn about wine and each wine producer has their own unique wine. I still have not tasted all wine after several years living here lol lol. Yes, there will be wine open cellars event - wine tasting end of August in Wallis, over 200 plus cellars to choose to go, can't wait to discover more wine🤩.

Nicely done!

I love this woman

I just got a copy of your Magnum Edition, and so excited to read it! It will be perfect for quarantine :)

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Английский язык не знаю, но всё понимаю по языку жестов. Очень полезная для меня, как винодела, информация. I don't know English, but I understand everything by sign language. Very useful information for me as a winemaker.

I would like you to try some of Baja California, Valle de Guadalupe wines. Maybe some Monte Xanic.

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Very interesting indeed! Thx :)

Brilliant

So great

Well played.

Very good video.

I think I experience overlap between acidity and tannin; the lemon versus the wet tea bags helps!

Tea bagging demonstration-- A+

Question: I'm fairly educated in the world of wine, always trying new wines, it's my fave hobby :) I like Scotch from the Islay region of Scotland (think earthy, smoky, heavy, rich) I'm curious which red varietals and which Countries I should be focusing on to find a red wine/blend with similar notes? I'd really like to find that "smoky" characteristic in a red wine . . . thoughts? ~ thx :)

Love it

Literally tea-bagging

Great video s

I would love to have a copy of your books! May i know what version or title that i can read to become a sommelier with a strong root knowledge from wine folly books?

The best wine Channel on this shit!!

Helpful video, thanks. I signed up, but I didn’t get an email, and I don’t see any access to the “free wine guide” you mention @4:52

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My kinda experimentation...👏👏👏🍷🍷🍷

Cheers

Tanks

Genius

Thanks for the video. I can confused sometimes between tannin and acidity. Isn't tannin an acid? Tannic acid?

nice glass!

Thanks for the explanation! By the way....I miss your videos...where are you???

more videos please

Ugh. She's such a Goddess!

thanks the kids loved this, great wine shower ❤️🍷#winefolly

I love wine🍷

I remember childhood Christmases when, if my family thought a red wine was too dry, they'd add blackcurrant juice to sweeten it. Lemonade would 'improve' a dry white. Real bunch o' wine snobs, my folks.

*We also produce wines in THAILAND, “New Latitude Wines” Here is PB Valley located only three hours drive North East of bustling mega city Bangkok*

My friend uses the vodka infused method on his wife on date night. Now i think that is unscrupulous, but she is always smiling and talking about wine.

I like your video very much, so informative, thank you so much. I would be very grateful if you could give us some ideas, how to look for great wines at a good value let me say 20 pounds. Can a sommelier always distinguish between 200£ wine from 20£ one? :-) I am completely new to this and never tasted an expensive wine. My favorite so far red wine, Brunello de Montalcino 2015 for 10£ at local supermarket and white one Soalheiro Alvarinho 2018 for 12£. Both taste great for me. I didn't manage to find well tasted Pinot noir in that price category, unfortunately always been disappointed :-( Can you share some of your favorites ? Sorry my English is terrible. Hope you'll get a point. Thank you again! PS.: I looked through your all videos and I think you already answered all my questions, so don't bother. You are adorable, seriously :-)

It’s 9:45pm on a Thursday All that talk about delicious wine fruit high tanning and taste made me open a bottle of Pecchenino 2004 LE COSTE Barolo .. LOOK WHAT YOU MAKE ME DO!!!! 😆

If you add honey to a wine that is high in tannis does it change anything?

I like 'shoulders'.

What mean that an wine smells like "wet dog"? Hahaha May you please tell us again about that history of that wine you know, haha. Cheers!

I'm looking for a wine like this description: Aromas of rich dark currants, nectarine skins, gushing blackberry, but lots of fragrant tobacco, rich soil, white flowers, smashed minerals and metal. Medium-bodied and saucy but racy acidity stabilises the wine nicely with the robust tannins laden with mocha, loamy soil, charred herbs, pencil shavings, roasted hazelnut. Dense like characters that make it perfect for cellaring, however it is drinkable straight away once you expose it to the earth’s atmosphere.

What is your go to wine glass for most of the time?

What makes the metallic taste in some wines?

A very tannic wine can be appropriate with a good steak & cheese.

What does 'green' mean in wine? Oftentimes people say some wine tastes green. Thanks!

Please do a giveaway on wine folly book na. I'm saving for that from last one month but can't able to reach the mark its expensive in India and I can't ask my parents due to this pandemic they are struggling too I wish I would have that. please wine folly do a giveaway contest . Thank you love from India

Good girl

yes, I would, why not?

If we could describe everything in wine, then we wouldn't need wine anymore.

I'm having a massive problem. I don't taste any of those things in my wines. I'm looking forward to trying many wines. The problem is, I never tasted any of those flavors from the wines I love to drink. The wines I'm interested in are those with big chewie wines. Normally those with the big meaty structures. I go for the big reds. Between 13.5% to15%. Is there a reason I'm missing those flavors?

"Kinda sort of a oaky afterbirth"

you forgot about the bitterness, which is definitely not the same thing as the adstringency (tannin level)

19 crimes tastes like watered down wine, still high quality

I feel like red wine has more benefits to it than white. But i prefer white because its not as acidic and easier to drink.

you are lucky you like wine cuz i dont have the taste buds for it and wish i could be a sommelier O wait no i dont

Ef that just gimme a bottle of Meiomi Merlot and like right now because my brain is turning into mush at this work place rn.

Not bad for a Druunk.... yeeeehaw'