When I am asked, “What should I buy?”  It is usually qualified by one of the following, for dinner, as a gift, to start my cellar. Each of these is worthy of an email. I’ll be writing a pair of gifting emails as the holidays approach, and will follow soon with one covering the basic food and wine pairing principles, but today I want to begin to tackle all that is “cellarable” wine.
To get to the root of the question “What wines should I cellar?” one needs to begin by figuring out what one likes. That is the relatively easy part of this puzzle. Finding the wines you love is a fairly simple deductive process, and fun too! You just need to discover WHY you enjoy a specific wine. Now that sounds simple, doesn’t it?
So to begin with we need to find where your preferences lay. In general one has to sample wines at the extreme end of the spectrum to really get a feel for ones preferences. Much of the great wine of the world, at all price points, has converged on a style that renders them very medium. Medium acid, medium tannin, medium structure, and, well, you get the idea.
A good place to start is finding out if you enjoy wines with significant structure. The acid and tannin that serve as the framework to support aging of wines are referred to as the wines structure. For most age worthy white wines that structure is the acid, though sugar gets involved here complicating things for everyone.  The great reds rely on a balanced combination of acid and tannin.

Do you know what the first step of becoming a wine connoisseur is? It is the desire to experiment!

So fill your glass and start experimenting with some of the finest wine varieties of the world; let your taste bud decide which one is the best.

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