030: Wine and spirits styles, their sensory characteristics

Valerie Bradshaw is a super credentialed wine, spirits and cigars assessor. She is also a member of the Cigar Sense expert panel. With her, we talked about:

• the sommelier educational path and what you can learn in a wine educational program
• the tools Valerie uses to keep the nose trained and develop the olfactory vocabulary
• a key difference between tasting wine vs. cigars
• the effects of malolactic fermentation when it comes to choosing wines to pair with cigars
• why we should not confuse the crispness of white wines done in stainless with acidity. Why acidity is important in wines and how you measure it
• the best vintage for port
• Scotch whisky and the corn sweetness
• cigar sommelier education

and more.

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