A guide to expanding the types of wine you drink

For those of you who always pick up the same old bottles

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If there was one thing I wanted my customers to do in my wine store and bar, it was to expand the range of wines they drank.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand why you might buy the same bottle or wines from the same region week in, week out. You know they taste great and you don’t want to buy a bottle you might hate, because wine is expensive.

But watching someone insist they only buy Malbec or only drink Rioja broke my heart a little bit. It became a personal mission to get them drinking not necessarily out of their comfort zone (an annoying phrase if ever I’ve heard one) but to look beyond what’s “nice.”

There’s a lot of world beyond “nice.”

This is the sort of advice I thrive on. Solid, practical advice you can use when making decisions about what bottles to buy. The sort of advice I wished my customers had access to (and tried my best to enthuse them with).

Jump the “acid-tannin hurdle”