Wine Tasting Contest
Wine Tasting Contest
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. Yet, 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 step in tasting wine is by looking at the wine.
Only fill your wine glass up to half way. You need to be able to do what they call the rim test, this is where you tilt the glass to look at the color of the wine. Now, you can’t tilt a wine glass if it is full of wine, can you?
You need to hold the wine glass by the stem and never by the bowl. You might be thinking that this will feel awkward but if you are a newcomer to wine tasting you won’t realize that the temperature of the wine can be changes by the heat from your hand. Another reason is to avoid blurring the color of the wine with your fingerprints.
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.
The next step is to smell the wine, When you swirled the wine around the glass you also exposed the scent of the wine. Now, stick your nose right in to the bowl of the wine and inhale deeply, about two inhalations will do. You cab tell the quality of a wine by its scent together with its age and origins.
After that, you are now prepared for tasting the wine. Tasting the wine doesn’t involve gulping everything inside the wine glass at once. You are only tasting the wine so tiny sips will do.
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.
Just three tiny tips to remember when at a wine tasting party or when you are tasting on your own. Remember these tips and you can be sure that you will be able to know what to do when you attend a wine tasting party.
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