In the final part of our beginner’s guide to wine assessment, top sommelier Maggie Kim explains how to draw conclusions from the way a wine impacts your tastebuds and palate.
Maggie Kim
Maggie Kim is a certified sommelier with more than 10 years of experience in Macao’s resort brands. She worked in Maze by Gordon Ramsay in London for two years and currently leads the food and beverage educational academy for one of Macao’s top integrated resorts, balancing work and life as a mother of two young boys.
In the second part of our beginner’s guide to wine assessment, top sommelier Maggie Kim explains how to analyse a wine’s primary, secondary and even tertiary aromas.
In this beginner’s guide to wine assessment, certified sommelier Maggie Kim explains how to analyse a wine’s colour, carbonation, clarity and more.
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