• Which wines would pair nicely with scallops?
   
• What is a fortified wine?
   
• What is Chablis?
   
• What is the order for tasting wine?
   
• Which wines are typically sweet wines?

By the time you complete the first year of the WineBrix program, you will be able to answer these questions and many more.

Should you momentarily forget something (we’re all getting older), just go to your wine reference book—the one where you’ve been keeping your monthly newsletters.
 

First and foremost, the Big MYSTERY Test in month 12 is all in good fun. It involves two bottles of wine and some friendly competition. You will receive two wines, but you will not know what they are. It will be up to you and your companions to determine the grape varietal of each. You will be doing a type of blind tasting.
And the best thing about this blind tasting is you will have prepared for it.

In month one with WineBrix, we will send you two sheets titled "WineBrix Steps for Wine Tasting."

As you taste your wines, you will go through the tasting sheets marking your reaction to the wines. You will address the look, swirl, smell and taste of each.

Some may want to skip the tasting sheets but, based on our experience, we recommend using them because our accuracy in blind tastings is significantly higher when we use tasting sheets than when we don’t; yours may be, too.

At the same time, you should do what is fun for you. You may want to try them in month one, and if you like them, continue using them each month. If they are not for you, just wing the test. It’s all good fun.