Tips and tricks for wine tasting

Posted on October 14, 2008
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by Roger Gordon

Part of the process of wine tasting is actually looking at the wine itself. Remember, the words wine tasting actually referred to the entire experience, not just the actual taste of the liquid. You will learn a lot about the wine just from looking at it. Always drink your wine in a clear glass. To see the true colour in it, hold it up, against a white background. Look at the colour. What do you see?

The wines colour will often have a strong influence on the taste of the wine. You will soon become to appreciate that white and red wines come in a myriad of different shades. It is this difference in colour that can tell us a lot about the wine. The general rule of thumb with red wine is that longer age and sweetness is denoted by more colour. With white wine by contrast too much colour is not a good thing. The aging process does not have a positive impact on white wine, in contrast to red wines which tend to improve with age. There is also a difference in the way white and reds change in colour with age. Red wines tend to lighten with age whereas whites tend to darken

To learn about the actual age of a wine by its colour, tilt your glass slightly to the side. You can then see the edge clearly. This is called the rim colour. The purple tint you see there will indicate that the wine is actually younger. If you see an orange or brown tint on the edge that indicates that the wine is mature. In addition, swirl the wine. This allows you to see the body of the wine. If it is thicker, it will have higher alcohol content as well as a higher sweet flavour. You can learn a lot about a wine from just looking at it.

While tasting wine is important, so is smelling your wine. As part of the process of experiencing full wine taste, you do have to smell the wine in the right manner. In fact, the scent of your wine will truly determine if you have a wine that you enjoy or one that you may not enjoy in the least. Most individuals will simple take a sniff of their wine, when there is a more full bodied method to doing so that will truly allow you to experience all that the wine has to offer to you before you even sip it.

The molecules in the wine will allow you truly appreciate the aroma. Wine tasters refer to this as the nose or the bouquet of the wine. Numerous different bouquets are mentioned with the most common being: spices, herbs wood, fruit, earthy, or floral. Each of these aromas will result in their own distinctive tastes.

To smell your wine properly, swirl it first. Moving the wine releases those molecules so that you can smell them. Then, take a quick sniff of the wine. This gives you one experience. Now, take a more deep smell of the wine. Can you smell the difference? Some experts dismiss the first, short initial smell of the wine. In either case, you can actually smell it. Think about the scent. Think about it. What aroma does it offer to you?

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2 Responses to “Tips and tricks for wine tasting”

  1. Travis on October 14th, 2008 9:37 pm

    I learned a good bit about wine and wine tasting from a close friend that lives in the Napa Valley, but I have to say that you explained some of the ideas much better than I’ve ever seen them explained before.

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