Wine Tasting In Torino

Through our program we took a trip to Torino for the weekend which included a visit to the Cinema Museum (very cool except I hadn't seen any of their movies) and the Egyptian Museum (second most famous in the world). On Saturday night we went to an Italian family's house for a wine tasting and full buffet dinner. We tasted two white and two reds and then a sweeter wine to accompany dessert. The things I learned about wine...

1. When you sniff each wine you try to find the emotion that accompanies it because certain aspects of your brain have an emotional attachment to that wine while the other part of your brain struggles to give a name to the smell... Regardless I was terrible at this part as people were shouting out things all over the place like "the smell of rocks after a rainy day". The only thing I could come up with is it smells like wine.

2. There are certain foods that accompany the wine and only if you choose the right food can you maximize the taste. For example we had a goat cheese with our first wine. It took me three tries to actually figure out how to combine the two tastes. Once I did it actually tasted incredible.

3. You must alternate one glass of wine with one glass of water. We were told this was so you didn't combine the tastes of the wine but seeing as our program coordinator kept repeating it to several of the smaller ladies on the trip I think it was most likely for other reasons.

4. I really don't know anything about wine.


A couple pictures from the evening...