Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Wine Appreciation for Beginners

I was going through some old videotapes this past weekend, looking for a specific tape for a video project that I was working on, when I found some of my old "wine appreciation" series video masters. I realized that with the advent of YouTube, it would be quite easy to publish these videos for the world to see, so I got them all prepped and online earlier today.

The original intent for this project was to be able to present inexperienced wine drinkers with the basic information about wine that would make them comfortable in selecting and assessing different brands of wine. Learning about wine is actually fairly easy, and tasting different brands can obviously be pretty fun, so it was a worthwhile project to put together.

The videos have basically been broken down into a series of beginners, intermediate, and advanced wine education topics. The basic videos are all available online right now, with nine separate segments totalling just over an hour in length. We haven't quite finished filming the intermediate and advanced videos, but we did all the prep work for them, so hopefully I'll find some time to make those videos available soon too. Please click here for more detailed information about what is being presented. Or if you don't need the written reference material, just grab a bottle of wine and watch any of the videos listed below!



Basic Wine Information, Part 1
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLVnLf5ee_4






Basic Wine Information, Part 2
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kzdB_Lo434






Basic Wine Information, Part 3
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRS5J7Q4YMg






Basic Wine Information, Part 4
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCEZdo5Tqio






Basic Wine Information, Part 5
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p67Q7YifGVw






Basic Wine Information, Part 6
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji66hK5uZQY






Basic Wine Information, Part 7
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHlLS0u-E4






Basic Wine Information, Part 8
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi5X5Ob7aNM






Basic Wine Information, Part 9
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSqA0DM-T_Q