Understanding The Process of Wine Tasting
There is a proper way for wine tasting. Some may even complicate it too much, while others may not understand the finer points well enough to get the most out of it. The following are some of the wine tasting basics to help you with the process.
The process of tasting wine is fairly simple. The wine will be provided in a glass with typically a very little amount of wine. The reason being is because all you really need is one sip. Wine tasting can be broken down into four components: swirling the wine around your tongue, smelling the wine, tasting the wine, and spitting it out. When done in this manner, you avoid becoming potentially intoxicated. Also, if you chose to swallow the wine as you tasted it, your sense of taste would affect and possibly inhibit your ability to accurately taste other wines.
To assist with rinse the palette, often times fruit or cheese is also offered at a wine tasting party. One important tip here is to slowly consume the cheese so that each part of your mouth gets cleansed. Thus, you will have a clean palette and now you can go back to tasting other wines.
When tasting wine, three aspects to evaluate are taste, color and clarity, and smell. By swirling the wine in the glass, you can judge whether the colors are lighter or darker, and also how light affects the color. With smell, the initial whiff is important. Try to see if you can tell a difference between the various wines. This may not come easily at first, but the more you do it the better you will get. After awhile, you should be able to detect specific flavors such as vanilla, citrus, or berries.
When examining the wine’s appearance, you want to judge the consistency of the color. To see if there are any traces of other colors, hold it up against a light background and concentrate on the section between the top and the middle of the glass. Any variation could be attributed to oxidation, but it could also mean that it is an issue that will impact the taste.
Most wines will fall under only a few categories when smelling the wine. Either the wine will smell floral and fruity, or will be a bouquet scent, which actually originates from the wine making process. Eventually, you should be able to recognize these categories of scents when wine tasting.
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