Wine Tasting

Wine Tasting Competition

Today, many people hosts wine tasting parties to celebrate the wonderful beverage that is wine. Parties like this are quite enjoyable as you will be able to taste different kinds of wine and also experience new flavors. Still, you may not know the first thing about wine. Surely you wouldn’t want to be the laughing stock at the party just because you don’t know how to taste wine properly. So, here are some basics on how to taste wine.

The first think is not what you might think, looking at the wine and not drinking it is the correct step.

Don’t overfill your glass with wine. You need to look at the color of the wine by doing the rim test, this is done by tilting the glass to one side. Tilting the glass too far would spill the wine if the glass was too full wouldn’t it?

The correct way to hold the glass is with the step and not the bowl. .The heat from your hand can change the temperature of the wine so this is the reason we hold the glass by the stem even thought it might feel a little uncomfortable. Holding the glass by the bowl can also blur the glass with you fingerprints, you wouldn’t then be able to see the true color of your wine.

The next step after looking at the color is to swirl the wine around your glass. The reason we do this is to release all the flavors from the wine but to also release the aroma.

Smelling the wine is the next step, after you have swirled the wine all the scents are released. Put your nose right into the glass bowl and take a deep breath, a couple of good inhalations through the nose would do. You cab tell the quality of a wine by its scent together with its age and origins.

Now you are prepared for the next part, the wine tasting. Don’t just take a large mouth full and swallow, take small sips. It involves doing tiny sips of the wine and most important of all, you need to be able to taste it.

After having wine inside your mouth, you need to roll the wine around your tongue. There are three things that you need to remember when you taste the wine. The first is the first impression or what the wine tastes like when it enters your mouth, the second is the taste or the flavor of the wine when you are actually swirling the wine around your mouth and the third is the aftertaste, which is the lingering flavor after swallowing the wine.

These are the things that you need to remember when you taste wine. By remembering these few tips you will surely be an accomplished wine taster at your next party.

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