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The Art Of Wine Tasting
from: Maxx Guide to WineIt's easy to detect a genuine wine expert simply by how he/she handles the wine in terms of smelling and tasting and not just drinking the wine. Anybody can drink wine. but it requires a lot of experience to "taste" wine.
Art of Wine Tasting
Red wine is a staple beverage in many household during meals, particularly with red meats such as pork or beef roasts. White meats such as fish and chicken work better with white wine.
There are thousands of varieties or type of wines, thus it takes experience and a real romance with wine to distinguish its characteristics by just smelling and tasting the wine.
In general, wines that have been stored properly should taste smooth. A wine that tastes off or even stale may not be of good quality or it may have been stored improperly causing the cork to become tainted.
So how does one "taste" wine? You should taste wine by swishing it in your mouth, which allows your taste buds to perceive both flavor and taste. Though, when tasting wine you're using your tongue, your sense of smell actually does most of the detection. Your sense of taste and sense of smell combined are used when tasting wines.
These two senses are certainly important when determining the quality of a wine, but the actual appearance of the wine is of equal important. You can better view a wine's appearance and color if it's been poured into a clear glass so you can look through it using a white table cloth or other white background.
You might wonder why, if wines are, in general, red or white, you need to study their colors? Actually, a white wine isn't perfectly white since their colors range from yellow to brown and green. White wines with darker colors have more flavor and are older.
Of course, aging does improve the flavor of a red wine, but this isn't true for white wines which can even go bad in time. Red wines lighter in color are older. You can examine a red wine's age by tilting your glass with red wine allowing some wine to settle on the glass rim, and then examining its color. If the color of the wine that settles on the glass rim is brownish, it's been aged.
Wine experts will also swirl the wine to observe the way it moves in the glass. A wine that swirls nicely might mean it has a higher sweetness and alcohol content.
The taste of wine is quite subjective, of course, since it depends on each individual's taste and preferences. Wine connoisseurs tend to follow specific guidelines for wine tasting. Tasting and smelling wine the right way can definitely add to the pleasure of drinking wine.
When wine tasting, be sure to take notes so you can identify the ones you preferred. Most wineries will provide a list to help you keep track of the wines you've tested out. You can then purchase the wines you like best at the winery, as well as when you get home at your local wine shop.
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