02 Jun Palate Expander [The Full Belly Blogger, May 30, 2026]
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Having orbited the wine world for the past several years, I’ve become somewhat fluent in the grapes that make up some of my favorite wines. Before all the books, index cards, maps, and tests, though, my sheltered palate couldn’t tell the difference between a Rousanne and a Riesling, or a Cabernet from a Carignan. One of the great joys of being a student of wine, for me, isn’t the credential, but the expansion of a language and the development of a trained palate. Luckily, there are other, more inexpensive ways to get a foothold on the variety of grapes that make some of your (and my) favorite wines: The Festival of Undiscovered Grapes.