Welcome to Drinks Tube, my name's Amelia and I love wine.
I love experimenting and trying new wines, but it is so easy to stick to your usual favourites.
However what i'm hoping to show you today is that wine is a very personal thing as taste
is so subjective and so I'll be giving you some helpful tips on trying new varieties,
new wines, new styles based on flavours that you love in everyday life.
So i'm going to go through all these flavours, but this is not a food and wine pairing.
This is, finding out wines which you could really enjoy based on flavours that you love.
But if you want to just click on the flavour that you like and I will recommend you your
wine.
If you love sugar it means that you have a sweet palate which actually means your palate
is very very sensitive and turns to sugar to mask the bitterness and alcohol in wine.
Therefore you should try desert wine made from Muscat or sweet Riesling's.
If you like artificial sweetener it means that you have a very tolerant palate and therefore
don't pick up on that metallic bitter edge which others can therefore in wines you probably
don't mind big tannin's, big flavour, big body, lots of acidity.
Why not try Italian reds, in particular sangiovese.
If you love espressos it means you have a very tolerant palate and therefore you don't
mind your wines being big in alcohol, big in body and big in tannin's.
Why not try if you're a white wine drinker Oaked Chardonnay from California, or if you
like red Californian Cabernet Sauvignon.
For latte drinkers you have a hyper-sensitive palate which means that you avoid very intense
flavours in wine but have sensitive enough plate to pick up complexities in wine that
others can't.
Therefore you would really love wines which are traditionally thought of as dry but can
actually have sweetness to them too, such as a ripe juicy Sauvignon Blanc, maybe from
Chile.
Lemons, if you like lemons it means that you have a hyper-sensitive palate as the acidity
in the lemons actually decreases the bitterness on our palates.
Therefore you like your wines to be smooth, fruity and low in alcohol, you probably drink
Pinot Grigio, but if you want to branch out why not try Verdicchio from Italy or a New
World Merlot.
Dark chocolate lovers, you have a very tolerant palate that loves big flavour and big tannin's,
you should definitely try Malbec and also Grenache for red or white wine.
Creme Brulee, creaminess combined with toasted caramel.
If you like creme brulee, it means that you have a sensitive palate and are therefore
quite an adventurous taster.
You love combining flavours as long as they are well balanced.
You should definitely try elegant Pinot Blanc from the Alsas, or an aged Rioja.
Olive lovers, you have sensitive palates, you love earthy, savoury flavours, but also
the creamy butteriness which olives can also bring.
Therefore, you love wines that can be big, complex but they need to be well balanced,
for red wine lovers you should definitely try Northern Rhone Syrah and white wine lovers
go for Gruner Veltliner from Austria.
Mushrooms have a savoury and aumami like sense to them which can play havoc on some peoples
acidity levels, but not for the tolerant or the sensitive taster, they love big bold flavours
as long as they're well balanced, both would love Ripe Bordeaux ' and any white blend from
the Rhone.
Do you get a kick from Chili?
Then you probably have a hyper-sensitive palate and get a euphoric experience from that endorphin
release.
You like wines that are fruity, smooth and low in alcohol and should definitely try Gewurztraminer
from either Germany or Alsas.
Are you always adding salt to your food, then it probably means you are very sensitive to
bitterness and therefore would love wines which are fruity but not that overly oaked.
Definitely go for a ripe juicy unoaked Chardonnay or an Old World Pinot Noir.
Mmm, my mate Marmite.
If you love marmite, for it's savoury, salty, tangy, yeasty nature then you should definitely
try some oxidised slightly funky natural wine, maybe some Chardonnay from the Jura or for
a salty tang, why not try a dry Fino Sherry.
So, I hope i've got you excited and confident to do away with your traditional wine drinking
habits and to get out there and taste some new exciting wines.
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Cheers.
Now where's that marmite.