How To Taste Wine Like An Expert

Nobody likes to look like a beginner when doing anything and wine tasting is no exception. Simply by following a few guidelines, you will look as when you have been to dozens of wine tastings even if you don't know a cabernet sauvignon from a pinot noir. Chances are that no-one will probably appear and ask you to become a head judge!

The first faltering step to tasting wine is an aesthetic one, fill your wine glass to only half full at most, one third is better. Secondly, hold your wine glass by the stem in order never to influence the taste by heating it with heat from your own hand and also so you have the ability to better begin to see the wine. Observe the intensity of the color in addition to how transparent your wine is. When observing the intensity you need to view it from above.

Now comes the fun part, swirl your wine in the glass to organize it for tasting. The wine will leave small traces in the glass, the more alcohol the more traces it will leave. Next, observe the color which shows the range of grape that your wine comes from. In most cases you may find a cabernet sauvignon is normally violet to dark while pinot noir is more of a ruby color.

The color of a wine can also be determined by the conditions of the climate during the growing season of growing and harvesting that the grapes went through. For example, a very hot summer coupled with a dry fall will produce full ripe grapes with an extremely dark color while a cooler summer and wet fall will give more undeveloped grapes which are much lighter. The type of winemaking process has a lot to do with the color as well; dark wine is fermented with skin and the longer the method the darker your wine ends up.

Age a wine also tells its color. Whenever a wine is young it is saturated in coloring agents making it denser and rich looking and as time goes on these agents are influenced by chemical reactions that lead to sediment being formed at the end and the color lightens up. When you visit a wine with lots of sediment at the end you can usually assume it is older and has been aging for quite awhile.

So there you have it a simple breakdown of wine tasting which will at the very least give you some semblance of knowing what you are doing, so enjoy!

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