(HuffingtonPost) - The two most important parts to determine a good wine are smell and taste. In my last piece, I covered three steps to become a wine aroma expert. Now that you have that part down, it's time to move on to a really useful trick to identify the tastes of wine. When I lived in California, I used to do a lot of wine tastings with my friends. We'd go to Napa Valley or Santa Barbara. I did the tastings mainly for social reasons. When anyone would ask me what the wine tasted like I really couldn't come up with more than, "it tastes like wine."