Napa Wine Tasting Card
Napa Wine Tasting Card
If you have ever tried wine sampling you will have found its rather easy. You don’t need to have official coaching and everyone can do it. As far as etiquette is involved, the ladies are normally served before the gentlemen. In most wine sampling parties, you can expect to be served with a room temperature bottled water. The waster is used to clean your taste buds so they are ready for the next and most in all probability entirely different type of wine. Cold water is not served up as this water will shock your palate which can affect the taste of the wine.
When tasting wine, it is essential that you hold the wine glass by the stem and not cup the bowl in your palm. Your hand can warm up the glass to an extent where it changes the taste of the wine so try to avoid this.
Most individuals think that wine tasting is just a matter of wrapping the wine around your mouth before you either spit it out or drink it.
The first thing to do when wine sampling to to look at the color Being able to see the wine clearly is important so make sure the glass you are using is clean. The tables should be covered with white linen table cloth in order for you to see the wine’s color more clearly. White wines are not always pure white, sometimes they are a shade of green, yellow and even brown. Again red isn’t always a perfect red, you can have lots of different shaded but older red wine tend to be a little lighter.
The colour of the wine will also suggest the age or the flavour, try doing a rim test to look at the colour of the wine. Simply tilt your glass and observe the coloring of the wine, if it look like a tint of brown it will be an older wine, if it is has a tone of purple then it will be a younger wine.
Testing the fragrance is the next step and this is done by twirling the wine about the glass to mix in the oxygen and then breath to the full through the nostril after placing the glass just above the top of your mouth. You have to remember that the wine may have been in the bottle for six months to many, many years, by twirling the wine, you will release the flavours. If you have ever done any cooking you will blend in the different flavours so blending wine with oxygen is no different.
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