Hey guys, what's up? Today we have a ton of wine here. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be another wine tasting video. In today's video, I'm hoping to share with you a few tricks, a few tips, so that you can select your wine better. Now I know, I know, you're already using some of my wine recommendations in the past. Even more helpful, I know a lot of us are already using the Vivino app, but the thing is, I know this happened to you because it's happened to me a lot. I entered the wine store, or maybe the supermarket, and there's a wall of wine there. I'm ready to spend the next hour there picking wines based on what are the good recommendations. But it happens that the mobile data coverage for that store is just not strong enough. Or maybe if it's not mobile data, maybe you're running low on battery, what do you do in these instances? In this video, I'm sharing with you three tips, so that you're not completely dependent on your phone, on how you can select your next spot of a wine just by looking at the label. But before that, if you haven't subscribed to my channel already, please do consider subscribing so that you can hear from me in the future regarding wine and other topics that I'm covering in this channel. Alright, so what are these three things? Number one, the more specific the bottle of wine is regarding its origin, the better. I wanted to show a few things when you're here. And excuse me guys, some of these are already finished because these are just in my collection. So for my first example, for a lack of specificity, would be this bottle from Gallo family. So Gallo is the largest producer of wine in the United States. But this bottle is labeled just as California. California is pretty big. There are a lot of wine regions in California. Just having the state there is not specific enough, unfortunately. Your wine is actually more special and carefully decorated, carefully put together, if it's coming just from one region. I like to phrase it as beef. If you buy a nice kind of steak, you know a ribeye or a strip loin, you know that that's a section that it's coming from. Whereas if it's ground beef, it might be coming from different places, from chokes, from brisket and so on and so forth. You don't really want your bottle to be coming from too many regions because it's just going to be a hodgepodge, a mix. And this one actually, it doesn't the back Modesto California. But unfortunately, when you look it up, Modesto California, it's actually their corporate office. If you look up their website, they are situated at Modesto. So unfortunately, Gallo, the state alone, is not specific enough. And since we have a California wine here, I feature this a few videos ago. So this is from Narly Head and right away it says that it's from Lodai. This one is specific enough. And I also feature this before. This is Red Peak and it says that it's from South Eastern Australia. If you check your geography, you would find out that there's no state called South Eastern Australia. This term was actually coined and put together by different wine makers, different vineyards. So it's a collective term. But the term South Eastern Australia actually touches on five different states, five of only six states in Australia. Unfortunately, that's not specific enough. The equivalent would be like the United States, naming their wines West Coast wines. I have here one that's not open. We have here Terrier State River in Treet. And this one is from Murray Darling. It's clearly indicated that there's an office, but Murray Darling is where the wine is coming from. And that's what you want to get from your wines. That's specificity. Alright, so number two, we're still kind of talking about location with all the world wines. We're actually going to come across subcategories of next to the location like this Tuscan White. It says that indigatione, geographic and typical. And this finished up bottle of Trebiano. It also says denomination, the origin, controlata. So what am I talking about here guys? So the old world producing regions actually have a few of these regulating bodies that ensure quality that they are up to standards. Actually if you want to know about those regulating bodies, that's a separate video in itself. But to go quickly, in France there's the AOC and the IGP for Italy and Spain. There's the DOC and the DOCG. These regulatory bodies can really help you determine what bottle you're picking up. Because they are already enforcing a standard before those wines even leave their country or even their region. So that's number two. And for number three, I'm actually cautious of wine bottles that have too many awards listed on them. I feel like the wine makers are trying to be too impressive. So there's really no way to verify these awards. Don't get me wrong, this bottle of wine is actually quite good. As with anything, there's an exception to every rule. You should be cautious of wine makers of bottles that flound too much awards. They were too good to begin with, they won't really need to flound it. So yeah, just be careful with that. Alright, so those are the three tips. So again, just through review. So number one, specificity of location. Again, it's best if it's just not the state, but it's a specific region. And don't settle for an umbrella California wine because again, that can be coming from all over the place. Number two, it helps to have those governing bodies just to assure you of some standard that's been enforced. And number three, be careful with the award that some of these bottles most of. Again, as with most things, these aren't hard in fast rules. There are still of course exceptions. Even if you are mindful of these three things, it might still be a bad bottle of wine. And of course, there's never an assurance. You could also get a good bottle of wine, even if it doesn't adhere to these things. But these are generally tips that may help you most of the time. Alright, thanks for watching. If you like this video, please don't forget to comment, like, and again, consider subscribing if you haven't already. And I'll see you again next time. Cheers guys!