Wineology

Dr. Ehrhart protested no country under the sun equaled Portugal for curiosities in mineralogy, theology, and wineology — which ology he was now convinced was the best of them all.

[…]Wine College, taking courses in wineology, physics, agriculture, mathematics, etc.

Editor John Torinus could enlighten us on wineology, crosscountry skiing, sailing and the joys and pains of being an editor.

Others tell me how this wine or that is hearty, or robust, or full-bodied or dry or light. I don’t understand all this wineology, which obviously makes me something less than an authority on wine.

Still, what’s missing from the above account is the ritual of homemade wine[-]ology: drinking the last of last year’s wine as you crush the first of a new year’s;

“The Oxford Companion to Wine,” edited by Jancis Robinson (Oxford University Press, $49.95). The mother of all wine reference books. Released late last year, it is a full 1,088 pages of wineology from abboccato (Italia for medium-sweet wine) to zwiegelt (Austria’s most popular dark-berried grape variety).

What’s more, there is a wineology class Saturday afternoon by noted winemaker Jim Clendenen.

Science Uncorked / Wineology 101 / Yes, it’s time to think outside of the box. Experts from the Wine Market aim to make selecting wines less intimidating with a seminar at the Maryland Science Center. Learn about taste zones, clarity and bouquet, and sample some of the “educational materials.”