Learn About Wine Tasting
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Tasting wine is the focus of this part of our wine guide...
When it comes to tasting wine, there are three aspects: smell, taste, and finish. We'll look at each of those individually.
To smell a wine, you should steadily swirl the glass to throw the wine up onto the side of the glass (thus increasing the surface area of wine in contact with the air) as this causes the wines aromas to be released. To swirl effectively, don't fill the glass too full - in fact less than half full is recommended.
While swirling, put your glass up to your nose and inhale, thinking about what kinds of aromas you're experiencing. Young wines will have primary aromas, relating to the grape variety (such smells are often fruit related). As wines age more secondary aromas develop, which may be more earthy or animalistic. Remember that a wines aromas can take on many different forms, and very rarely will it simply smell of grapes.
When you taste wine, it's important to realize that little of the flavor that can be sensed actually involves the tongue. In fact, its your nose that does the tasting, even when wine is in your mouth; this is because the aromas of the wine seep into your nasal passages from your mouth.
So, breathe in and out through your nose whilst the wine is in your mouth; paying attention to the way the wine changes as you hold it there. There are different segments to the taste of wine as it remains in your mouth: the fore-palate refers to your first impression, the mid-palate to your taste after a few seconds, and the end-palate to the wines final flavor. Each of these will be different, so look out for the changes in taste.
When you swallow wine, you experience the finish. It will often be different to how the wine came across on the palate. The flavors may linger for a while on the palate after the wine has been swallowed, and this is referred to as the length. The more length a wine has, the more time you have to enjoy it, and it's probably true to say that such wines are generally of better quality.
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