Advanced Wine Knowledge

If you’ve landed on this page, it means you’re as serious about wine as we are. This section of our wine guide delves deeper into our specialist subject, giving you lots of expert tips and nerdy knowledge including how to spot faults in wine and understanding tannins and terroir. We even cover topics such as what you can tell about a wine’s flavour, age and origin from appearance alone, so you can do your best sommelier impression.

Woman holding glass of white wine up in the air to show wine quality

What Affects Wine Quality and Price
Glasses of red, white and rose wine on a white surface showing all the different colours of wine

Colours of Wine Explained
Two glasses of white wine where one has bubbles to represent faults in wine

How to Spot and Fix Faults in Wine
Stained cork in a bottle of wine, laying down on a white worktop to represent corked wine

How To Tell if Wine is Corked
Three grapes on a grey surface, one of which has been cut in half to show the pips inside. Concept represents tannins in wine

Tannins in Wine Explained
Bunch of grapes laying in soil to represent how terroir influences wine

What is the Meaning of Terroir?

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