The enjoyment of wine

Enjoyment of wine lies not just in the quality of the product. You need the right accessories to fully enjoy and savour wine. I've always believed that wine is just a drink, but drinking it is about enjoyment.

And wine may be a complex thing (red wine has some 300 chemical constituents) but the things to help you enjoy it as a drink are simple.

I would like to think that I'm not a wine snob, even if I enjoy drinking good wines. But I do draw the line at certain things. For example, I walked into a Japanese restaurant in Adelaide recently with a bottle of wine under my arm, and we had to drink it from blue plastic beakers.

The right glasses are important.…