Wine Tasting

You are missing a great opportunity to learn about wine if you don’t go to a wine tasting party just because you don’t consider yourself a cones our. Wine tasting isn’t about those types of individuals doing the classic cliche’ in wine tasting, which is sip, swill and spit, but you will see that wine tasting can be a lot of fun as well as educational.

Here are some tips on how you can learn to taste wine like a professional. Learning to taste wine correctly will help you feel like one of the crown while at the same time educating yourself on fine wines.

If you are served with a chilled wine, you should pick up the glass on its stem and not by the bowl. The reason for this is that the palm of your hands is warm, this will warm the wine quickly and will ruin its natural taste. So remember always pick the glass up by the stem and not the bowl. Using the stem is normal practice but room temperature wine can be held by the bowl instead of the stem.

After picking up the wine glass you need to look at the wine. The wine should be placed against a white background while tilting the wine at a slight angle. Your host should have provided a white table cloth to napkins for you to use if they know anything about wine. The white background while not only serving a purpose but at the same time makes the room look more attractive.

One of the other parts of wine tasting the the bouquet or sometimes known as the “nose”.

To really appreciate the wine the wine should be held at at the level position. Next you should gently swirl the wine inside the glass. The reason this is done is to mix the wine with air cause the aroma to escape into the part of the glass that is empty. Hold the glass close to your nose and take a deep breath to capture the full aroma of the wine, remember to exhale afterwards or you might feel a little dizzy.After mixing the wine with the air inside the glass you are now to place the glass right under your nose to take a deep breath and appreciate the bouquet of the wine.}

Wine tasting is not about drinking as much as you can but to take tiny sips and really appreciate a good wine. Once you have taken a small amount of wine into your mouth your should roll it around your tongue before swallowing or spitting it our. Some individuals spit out their wine after tasting but it is quite acceptable to swallow after rolling the wine around your tongue.

Remember these tips and you can be sure that you will have lots of fun at wine tasting parties. You need to remember that wine tasting parties doesn’t need to be boring and intimidating, but it can be a great way to socialize and even joke a bit.

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