Wine Tasting – An art!

Wine tasting will help you appreciate winemakers and various wines. You’ll use the taste, small, and look

of the wine to judge each one that you sample. You’ll be able to taste wines like the professionals with

experience in wine tasting. Your combination of taste and smell is what you’ll use to discern the flavor of

the wines that you end up sampling.

Tasting Wine

Poor some wine into a wine glass and then take a look at the wine. Tilt the glass and have a look at the

color of it. Make a note of the color if the wine. Red can be ruby, maroon, purple, red brick, or even a bit

brownish. A while will be yellow, pale, straw-like, amber, golden or a light green. Have a look at the

opacity of the wine. It can be dark, watery, opaque, translucent, brilliant, or dull.

Look for sediment in the wine or pieces of cork or floaters. Older red wines may have orange tinges on

the edges while younger reds won’t. An older white wine will appear darker than the younger white

wines.

Smell

Our sense of smell is critical when you taste a wine. Swirl your glass for a good 12 seconds to get the

aroma out of the wine. Take a goof sniff to get that first impression of the smell of the wine. Get your

nose deep down into the glass and take a deep inhale of the wine into your nose. You may smell

flowers, vanilla, citrus, oak, or berries. Swirl the wine some more and let the aromas mix some more into

the glass and then take another sniff of the wine.

Tasting

Take a small sip of the wine and let the wine roll around in your mouth as you taste it. The first phase of

the tasting is the attack phase which is your initial impression of the wine. You’ll note the alcohol

content, acidity, tannin levels, and the residual sugar. In the evolution phase this is how the wine actual

tastes on your palate. This is where you’ll determine the flavor profile of the wine. The last phase is the

finish and this is how long the flavor of the wine lasts. The wine aftertaste happens in this phase too.

Enjoy the Experience

As you taste wines you’ll get better at the whole process. This was just a brief view of wine tasting and

how it works.

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Author Bio: I've been writing articles for the past 10 years. My specialty is writing articles on

wine and fruit drinks. I am a food lover.