Another episode ready for you. And this time it’s not just on this blog, that’s right, my video podcast is up and running now. I also managed to fix an aspect ratio in the videos that i have posted. Viddler, thankfully, didn’t show the problem, but the ipod video files looked pretty stretched. Anyways, it is all fixed now and I look forward to the next episode, which should be done for Sunday evening.

In this episode I taste a random wine that caught my eye from the Spain/Portugal section in the store by my house.

A lot of people are clueless about the wine scoring system, and that is not meant to be harsh in the least.  The truth is that, myself included, the wine scoring system just seems like a number applied to wine to rate it’s appeal.  A more detailed explanation is that certain ranges represent the appeal of the wine given the criteria of that range.

So to ease everyone’s mind, here are some links that provide some insightful information to wine scoring.

• Cork’d | How to score wine on the 100 point scale
• Wikipedia | Wine tasting descriptors

Personally, I need to brush up on the tasting descriptors.  But for other amateur wine tasters, you may enjoy reading the how to at Cork’d, it was very useful to me when learning how to taste wine.

Welcome to Wine Me TV, a show about tasting wine with a canadian perspective, and more importantly, an evolution of my palate.

Some things to note are that this is the first video blog I have ever done, in fact, the video camera used for this blog was purchased only a few days ago and is my very first video camera. So with that in mind, please let me know what you think. I am welcome to criticism and comments, I want to make this show as good as I possibly can, and this will not be possible without help from those who watch it.

You must also remember that I am not a professional (except when it comes to programming), so my scores may be out to wack, the same goes for my tastes and smells. The purpose of this blog is to show the process of learning about wine and the progress that I make.

Finally, this blog is not intended to be a clone of Wine Library TV, though I do idolize Gary V, I want to put a new and unique perspective on my show. This is most clearly done with tasting wines commonly available in Canada.

With that said enjoy watching the video below.