Wine Tasting Themes

Wine Tasting Themes

Wine sampling is not as difficult as you think. You can easily do it with no training at all. As far as etiquette is involved, the ladies are usually served up before the men. 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 likelihood completely different type of wine. The water is not to be very cold as this can shock your palate which can change the taste of the wine tremendously.

Holding the wine glass by the base and not the bowl in the palm of your hand is very important when it comes to wine sampling. The purpose of this is that it prevents you from heating the wine with your hands, you have to remember that this will also impact the overall taste of the wine.

Tasting the wine doesn’t just involve placing the wine in your mouth and roll it around your tongue a couple of times before spitting or swallowing.

The first step in tasting wine is by taking a look at its 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 coloring more clearly. White doesn’t always mean white when it come to wine, you can sometimes find white wine with a brown, yellow or even green shade. When looking at the colour of a red wine you will notice that they come in different shades, the older the wine the lighter it is.

Try doing a rim test and look at the color of the wine, this can give you some indication as to the age or flavour. Just tip the glass and look at the wine, if it is purplish in color, it suggests that the wine is young, if it is brownish, it means that it is an older 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 nose after placing the glass just above the top of your mouth. The flavour of the wine is released by twirling the wine around the glass, remember the wine could have been in the bottle for many years. It’s like cooking at home where you stir the food in order for you to blend the flavor.

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