Wine cheat sheet

This article is intended for beginner wine tasters. Wine tasting is a fun and excellent way to spend an afternoon with a friend or family member.

Use our red wine body guide cheat sheet to quickly see whether dozens of different wine varieties and regions are light, medium or heavy bodied.

Wine Cheat Sheet

@Leslie Riemen Battaglia ...for those of us who don't take a wine class. (simple explanation of wine)

Learn different levels of sweetness for red and white wines with this easy Wine Sweetness Chart.

Here is the 2nd installment in my series of grape profiles. (See the full collection of wine cheat sheets here.) Hopefully this will help you to learn more about a wine you already like, or explore the flavors of a new grape or a new region! (Click on the graphic for a larger view.) To see the Cheat Sheet in full size… …in Internet Explorer, right click on it and select “open in new tab.” …in Chrome, right click on it and select “open link in new tab.” …in Firefox, right click on it and…

Next in the wine cheat sheet series: Italy! I've covered Chianti before, here. The full collection of wine cheat sheets is here. To see the Cheat Sheet in full size… …in Internet Explorer, right click on it and select “open in new tab.” …in Chrome, right click on it and select “open link in new tab.” …in Firefox, right click on it and select “view image.”

The scene: You are out with some friends at a great new restaurant…they bring the wine list and it is longer than the book you are reading in your free time. A lot of people want to drink wi…