Initial Wine and Tasting Experience:

Thus far in my life, my experience drinking wine is limited to drinking cheap wine and brutal hangovers.  Most of my tasting experience has involved tasting beers.   My family loves going to beer tastings and visiting micro-breweries around the state.  Through these experiences I have tasted a wide variety of beers.  Despite my experience tasting beer I have essentially no experience tasting wine.

My current pallet has not developed an understanding for the taste for wine.  I cannot detect flavors in wines like I can in beer.  However, I have discovered I prefer red wines as oppose to white wines.  This is based solely on the fact I have founded that white wines tended to be sweeter.   I prefer the dry smooth taste of red wine.  

Most of my wine drinking has been socially among friends with very little attention to the taste of the wine. Over the past semester my roommates and I have started to mix in wine during the week. I really enjoy the buzz provided by wine and I would like to gain a good understanding of the wines I am drinking. I am hoping that by taking this class I can learn to understand regional differences in taste and how to differentiate flavors.  By the end of the semester I am hoping to have close to the same understanding of wine as I do beer.