I’ve recently started asking for people’s coffee preference when trying to figure out what wine they like - The Athan Zafirov Wine Blog

I’ve recently started asking for people’s coffee preference when trying to figure out what wine they like

So there’s nothing wrong with being new to wine, however it still helps to guide people toward wine they will like. This also works when someone is trying to buy wine for somebody else but doesn’t know their taste. Based on their preferred coffee order, I can guess a general style of wine the person would like, then go from there based on price or other things. Consider this, somebody tells me they always get a small black coffee, I can assume they definitely tolerate higher acid well and they would definitely prefer a lower RS level, and probably a red to start because I tend to match the bitterness of coffee with tannins for this. Conversely, imagine that someone says they like a caramel macchiato, this coffee is an approachable and usually easy to drink coffee, with some sugar, and less acid. It probably does help that I used to work in coffee, but it’s a very helpful guide to helping pick out wine for people.

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