Wine Country Journals

I love wine. I also love to visit beautiful wine country. It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it, right?

As just an amateur wine lover, I frequently left my vacation from wine country full of all this new information, enthusiastic about all the great wine I'd tasted and with all the information only written down on a few random sheets of paper provided by the wineries.

I'd get to my local restaurant or wine shop and realize that what I thought I'd remember when I got home, I didn't. All the labels, vintages and varietals are too overwhelming when you're simply trying to remember what you've tasted.

Aha! I developed my wine tasting journals. I recognized that you don't have time when you're tasting to write a novel about each bottle of wine. You need a quick checklist and rating system so you can contrast and compare your likes and dislikes.

There's no right or wrong way to learn about wine or to track what you've tasted. Just use my journal as a guide and drink what you like and write what you taste!