Tannins - We’ve all heard the word, here’s what they are…

“Wow, this wine is tannic”!

“…lush plummy fruit supported by a fine tannic structure…”

We’ve all heard the sentence and the phrase just above, and as the title says, the word is thrown around like a Nerf football in a college stadium parking lot, but perhaps for that very reason, my instincts tell me that many wine drinkers, if really pressed for an answer, couldn’t define the term with any real precision. Let’s have a look…