One Tip to Blind Tasting

There are few tasks as daunting as blind tasting a wine, and there is no questioning how difficult this task is. There is one monumentally important tip to help determine what a wine is, for the tasting beginner.
This tip, is not to look at the glass, and listen to the voice in your head asking what is it what is it what is it? over and over. You are asking yourself the wrong question entirely. Ask yourself what the wine is not, and it will send you on your way, narrowing the possible outcomes, and guiding you into the camp of the correct answer. What to look at once you are at this point, is a discussion for a different day.