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    I Used To Find Wine So Confusing, Until I Learned These Simple And Helpful Tidbits

    "This used to baffle me, but once I thought about it, reading a wine label just started to make sense."

    I'm Hannah, and I really love wine. Once upon a time, I used to think that shopping for wine or ordering a bottle at a restaurant was the most utterly confusing task, but not anymore.

    Me drinking at a wine tasting

    With the help of a few educational classes and lots of drinking (which I prefer to call “studying”), the often confusing world of wine suddenly makes a whole lot more sense. That's because I learned a bunch of tips, tidbits, and pointers along the way to help demystify it. So if you love wine and just want to understand it a bit more, keep reading.

    1. Great wine doesn't have to be expensive.

    A bottle of wine at a restaurant

    2. There's way more to wine than cabernet sauvignon and pinot grigio.

    A bottle of wine made from three distinct grapes, listed on the label

    3. Some wines are named after the region in which they are grown, not for the grape variety.

    4. Oh, and that goes for champagne, too.

    A bottle of Champagne from Champagne, France

    5. Not all wine is meant to be aged.

    A bottle of Italian wine that has been aging since 2009

    6. The colder the wine-growing climate, the more acidic the wine.

    Me taking a wine class with a map book and two glasses

    7. To find what kind of wines you love, home in on the growing regions.

    8. To understand taste, take a look at the soil.

    Three carafes of white wine with rocks depicting the type of soil they are grown in

    9. All the information you need is on the label, if you know where to look.

    10. If it grows together, it goes together.

    Red wine with pasta

    11. If you're down to get a little funky, try natural wine.