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Romancing with Bouquets, but not as we know it
After reading this, you will be fluent in the art of wine
tasting.
It is easy to assume that wine tasting is simply sipping,
swishing, and swallowing. Many are amazed to find that it
involves considerably more than these three basic bodily
functions.
Wine tasting is Art, Art that is used to distinguish fine wine
from two-buck-chuck.
Wine can be a tasty and refreshing treat, when stored
correctly and aged properly.
Wine tasters swish the wine inside their mouths to familiarize
themselves with the wide range of flavors inherent in the
drink.
Both the front and the back areas of the tongue contain taste
buds, although neither one has any distinct sensation in
taste.
Taste buds can detect food and liquid that is bitter, salty or
sweet. To get the full range of flavors from wine however, you
need to swish it around in your mouth and allow your taste
buds and sense of smell to bring out the unique and fine
flavors in the wine.
When you have a cold however, the wine can taste very
different. When tasting your wine, your sense of smell has a
major impact on the taste. What many fail to realize, is that
over seventy five percent of our taste is due to our sense of
smell. When we have a cold, our sense of smell is affected.
Therefore, when eating or tasting wine with a cold, the taste
will become dulled.
Wine tasters all over the world will tell you that tasting
wine is more about a sense of smell than the actual taste
buds.
Wine tasting is indeed an art. Wine tasters do however; follow
some general guidelines and rules that judge how great a wine
is. These techniques can help you bring the most out of your
wine, providing you follow them and know how to bring out the
taste.
The first thing to do with wine is to look. With wine, you can
tell quite a bit about it by looking at it. You should always
start by pouring the wine into a clear glass, then taking a
few minutes to look at the color. As far as the color goes,
white wines aren’t white, but actually yellow, green, or
brown.
Red wines on the other hand are normally a pale red or dark
brown color. Red wine improves with age, whereas white wines
tend to spoil over time.
Although, in saying that, there are some high quality white
wines, with the ability to age. They tend to require
consumption within ten to fifteen years of racking.
Now, the taster gently holds the wine glass approximately one
inch in front of the nose, while gently swirling the wine in
the glass.
This mild agitation of the wine helps to release the wine's
bouquet, and assails the taster's nostrils with an abundance
of scents, which tell an elaborate story of the wine's humble
lifetime.
You should start with a small whiff to get a general idea of
the wine, and then take a long, deep draw. This deeper
inhalation allows the taster to absorb the flavor of the wine.
Experienced wine tasters prefer to sit back a bit and think
about the smell before they actually taste the wine.
Last but not least, is to taste the wine. To properly taste
the wine, first take a sip, swish it around in your mouth, and
then swallow. Upon swishing the wine around in your mouth,
you’ll bring out the rich and bold palate of the wine. After
swallowing, you’ll be able to distinguish the after taste of
the wine, and the overall flavor.
Once you have looked at the wine, smelled it, and finally
tasted it, you’ll be able to evaluate the wine from a taster’s
standpoint. This is the correct way to determine the quality
of the wine, and whether or not it has been properly stored
and aged. As with all things in life, the more experience you
have, the greater becomes your skill at distinguishing the
unique flavors.
Source:
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