You don't need fancy equipment to enjoy wine. Find out what basic glassware and simple tools can enhance your enjoyment of wine.

Get the most out of your wine experience by serving the various types of wine at the right temperature, along with practical suggestions on how to quickly and easily reach those temperatures before serving.

Have you ever struggled with wine jargon?  Do you know the difference between an aroma and the bouquet of a wine? Or the difference between a taste and a flavour.  These key terms will be covered as groundwork for the rest of the coure.

Learning where and how grapes are grown will give you key insights in what it takes to make a great wine and why some wines are simply better than others.  Learn why knowing the reputation of the wine producer will make choosing wine all that much simpler.

How are these wines made and what the potential implications are for the environment and our health?  Learn more about what makes these wines unique.

What unique combination of events is needed to make a great vintage?  In this lecture, you will gain insights into why that vintage date is so important when choosing wine.

Go step-by-step through the red winemaking process and start to learn of the links that exist between how the wine is made and aromas and flavours you can expect to detect in your glass.

What can making a cup of tea from loose tea leaves teach us about making wine?  Watch and find out the 5 things they have in common.

Can a white wine be made from red grapes?  Find out the answer by watching this video.  At the same time, you will learn the key difference between making white wines and making red wines.

In this over-the-shoulder video, a typical tasting note is reverse engineered in order to link the specific winemaking process - the cause - with the aromas and flavours produced - the effect.

Section 2

See, swirl, sip and ..........  Can you guess other 4 words staring with the letter 's' that complete the process for tasting wine?  Watch this lecture to find out what they are and how using the 7 S's approach can improve the full sensory experience when tasting wine.

What should we be paying attention to when looking at a wine's appearance? What can the colour tell us about the age of a wine?  What does the colour intensity of a wine indicate about the wine's flavour? And, why might a little cloudiness in wine be a good thing?  Watch here to find out.

Primary, secondary and tertiary aromas are explained using concrete examples.  Understanding this key concept will firmly link the aromas and flavours in your glass to their origins and sets the stage for the overall concept of 'Wine in 9'.

What happens to us when we remove the sense of sight from the winetasting process.  Learn more here about 'the colour of aromas'.

Use the demonstration in this video at your next home wine tasting and watch for that 'aha' moment when your friends realize something really quite profound about how we taste wine.

What do the tears or legs on the inside of your wine glass indicate.....if anything?  Watch here to discover one of wine's enduring myths.

The key to remembering is to never forget.  Writing tasting notes is a great way to anchor those moments of recognition of a particular aroma or flavour so that you recall them more easily later.  Learn what things to focus on as you go through an examination of a wine's appearance, nose, palate and your personal, overall impressions.

So often with wine, the tactile sensation or the 'sense of touch' is overlooked.  Here we focus on how to describe a wine's textures.  This video will help you add depth to your wine descriptions.

Have you ever felt as if you cannot detect anything specific in your glass of wine?  Try this simple technique to train your palate and to entertain your friends at your next wine tasting.  This technique was the one that was taught to me at university during my winemaking training.

What can green, yellow and red bell peppers (capsicums) teach us about the ripeness of grapes?  How does ripeness impact the aromas and flavours we can expect within a wine style and between wine types?  Watch here to find out. Please go to the pdf attached to find out more about the concept of wine 'extract'.

Understanding the impact of the grape variety on the wine holds the key to unlocking a world of diverse and pleasurable experiences from wine.  Wines that derive their essential character from the grape variety itself is the first of three tiers in the Wine in 9 grid.

Can a winemaker pre-determine which aromas and flavours will be in the final wine?  Find out with concrete examples taken from the three main wine types under discussion:  sparkling, still and fortified wines.  Learning how the process can drive the essential character of a wine is the second of three tiers in the Wine in 9 concept.

What is terroir?  What makes it so fascinating for wine lovers.  Learn more about this third and final tier of wine understanding based on the Wine in 9 formula.

Learn of the more detailed examples of how the climate, soil and human management of the vine can trap the essential character of a wine in time and place.

Preserving those all-important bubbles in your sparkling wine starts with opening it properly. Learn how to do that here.

This first of nine categories in the Wine in 9 grid focuses on the impact of the variety on the essential character of sparkling wines.  Please go to the pdf that comes with this video for specific recommendations about this category of wine.  Watch out for the examples coming from Italy and Australia.

This second of nine categories in the 'Wine in 9' grid focusses on process-driven sparkling wine.  While it is true that putting the bubbles into your bubbly is itself a process, the specific method for doing this is all-important.   Learn why choosing a wine with the phrase "Fermented in this Bottle" is often to be preferred to one that only says "Bottle-fermented".

This third of nine category, terroir-driven sparkling wine, introduces the concept of matching the grape variety to the sub-region in Champagne.  Be sure to look at the pdf for examples of an exciting and more affordable type of Champagne that is becoming more and more popular.

Meet the 9 internationalists, the 9 varieties and blends that you will find coming out of almost every wine producing country.  Also, learn here of one of the ways in which France has left an enduring legacy on the rest of the wine world.

A great way to buy wine with confidence is to learn which countries specialize in the making of a single variety.  Please find go to the pdf to see some of the rising stars in the wine world as countries claim certain varieties as their own.

Learn how the winemaking process itself contributes to the essential character of still wine in this video.  This category of wine in the Wine in 9 grid focuses on how we humans get to imprint a distinctive character on the wine based on which process is applied.

Choosing which way to grow your grapes and make your sweet wine will have a significant and highly-specific impact on the final wine.  Learn which of the processes a winemaker would choose in order to impart the flavours of either grapefruit, raisins or dried apricots to their still, sweet wines.

How does terroir play a part in the making of fine Burgundy and Bordeaux wines?  Learn more about the 'sense of place' connected to the wines from these two extremely influential French regions and how this understanding can help guide your wine purchases.

Learn more about the highly distinctive, varietal Madeira wines and also the Liqueur Muscats and Tokays that come from the Rutherglen region in Victoria, Australia.  You will find a small surprise from the Czech Republic too.

We focus on the Port wines of the Douro region in Portugal and the wines of the Sherry region of Spain.  In both cases, the specific process used to make the wine has a dramatic impact on the final result.  Learn more about the processes that go into making these underpriced wines that tend to overdeliver on quality.  Your drinking choices will never be the same again.

This last cell in the Wine in 9 grid is occupied by only a handful of wines which include single-vineyard Ports.  Still however, the imprint of the sense of place on the wine is unmistakable, and the good news is that many of these wines will continue to showcase their sense of place over many decades of bottle ageing.

To what extent are we pre-programmed to like certain types of wines?  Learn about the fascinating link between our physiology and taste preferences when it comes to wine.  Such an understanding has the knock-on effect of forever changing how you view food and wine pairing.

In this video, we intentionally disprove one of the wine myths that still casts its shadow on wine drinkers to this day.  You will also learn a very simple and practical way in which to improve the harmony between your food and wine pairings.

This video features a very instructive demonstration on the effects of food on wine that can be easily replicated at home.  Learn what to look out for in the food that may or may not contribute towards the harmony between the wine and food.

Learning how different countries classify wine quality and the terms they use to describe the differences in quality can help make choosing wine that much simpler.  Watch here for more info on the subject.

Why do we sometimes see warnings on some wine labels regarding the use of fish, eggs, nuts and milk in the making of wine?  What makes a wine suitable for vegans and for vegetarians?  And why might the terms "Unfined and Unfiltered" indicate a higher level of wine quality? Watch here to find out more.

Take the mystery out of buying wine with these online and offline choices.  Be sure to tap into the vast sums of knowledge held by your local wine professionals.

Have you ever tried a wine that was not quite right, but you weren't sure why?  Learn more about the reasons why wine can be rejected and also some of the tell-tale signs that indicate that your wine might have a fault.

Thank you for joining me on this 'Wine in 9' journey.  Here you will get some ideas of how to build on your new-found foundation of wine knowledge and experience.  I look forward to your visit to my website: 

www.mikemazey.com