Understanding Wine in Adelaide
In the first 25 years of my life I belonged to those people who could make distinctions between wines by only one characteristic: red or white! But moving from Munich to Adelaide marked a big change in my life. The city is argued to be Australia‘s hot spot for viticulture.
National Wine Centre in Adelaide
I am surrounded by people who devote their lifes to that industry and there was just no way around it: I had to start understanding wine!
Too easy. One particular outstanding characteristic of Australians is their open-minded attitude towards those, who would like to try something new. So a few weeks after my arrival, I found myself sitting in front of six glasses trying to figure out different taste sensations in the ‘Understanding Wine Course’ at the National Wine Center.
Besides a lot of basic information on wine making the main benefit from this course was learning how to build up a taste memory. Immediately after tasting, we were encouraged to talk about it as much as possible using the most creative expressions. Associating wine with any other taste than grapes and alcohol first appeared strange to me, but it actually works! I started to smell the pepper in the Shiraz, the peach in Chardonnay, the passion fruit in Sauvignon Blanc and many more associations (some strange ones, too! I did not think of vegemite before when having a glass of sparkling wine?)
Since this breakthrough my taste buds have woken up. No opportunity is left out to taste more. You could call it an addiction – but certainly in a good sense. And as appreciating wine is so much about the particular experience, it is also a great way of discovering and getting to know South Australia and its‘ people.
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Neu in Adelaide und keine Ahnung von Wein! So ging es mir bei meiner Ankunft in der australischen Weinhauptstadt. Aber so konnte es nicht bleiben. Der Kurs Understanding Wine im National Wine Center erklärt Wein-Neulingen nicht nur, wie und wo Wein gemacht wird. Worauf es hauptsächlich ankommt, ist der systematische Aufbau eines Geschmacksgedächtnisses. Der Kreativität beim Beschreiben aller möglichen Assoziationen ist dabei keine Grenze gesetzt.
Seit ich wortwörtlich auf den Geschmack gekommen bin, lasse ich keine Gelegenheit zum Probieren mehr aus. Das beinhaltet gleichzeitig die Chance, Land und Leute in South Australia intensiv kennen zu lernen, da Wein nun mal untrennbar mit seiner Herkunft verbunden ist.
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