How do you taste wine.?!
How do you taste wine.?
My friends and I want to go to a winery for jazz on the lawn and samples but are unsure of proper techniques for tasting wine. Any information will be deemed useable. Thanks betches.
Answers:
#1-Look Pour a glass of wine into a suitable wine glass. Then take a good look at the wine. What color is it? Look beyond red, white or blush. If it's a red wine is the color maroon, purple, ruby, garnet, red or even brownish. If it's a white wine is it clear, straw-like, golden, light green, pale yellow or brown in appearance?
Still Looking. Move on to the wine's opacity. Is the wine clear, cloudy, transparent or opaque? Tilt your glass a bit, give it a little swirl - look again, you are looking at color, clarity, brilliance (sounds like you're finding the perfect diamond!) - is there sediment, bits of cork or any other floating bits? An older red wine will be more translucent than younger red wines.
#2-Smell Our sense of smell is critical in properly analyzing a glass of wine. To get a good impression of your wine's aroma, gently swirl your glass (this will enhance the wine's natural aromas) and then take a quick whiff to gain a first impression.
Still Smelling. Now stick your nose down into the glass and take a deep inhale through your nose. What are your second impressions? Do you smell oak, berry, flowers, vanilla or citrus? A wine's aroma is an excellent indicator of its quality and unique characteristics. Gently swirl the wine and let the aromas mix and mingle, and sniff again.
#3-Taste Finally, take a taste. Start with a small sip and let it roll around your tongue. There are three stages of taste:
Taste - After gathering your initial impression of the wine, allow a small breath of air in through your lips and allow the wine to mingle with the air (called swirling). This will allow you to taste flavors more fully (even if you look or sound a bit funny). What do you taste? Reds will often have berry, woody and bell pepper tastes. White wines will often have apple, floral or citrus flavors associtated with them.
Initial Taste - This is your first impression of the wine's components and flavors.
Finish - The wine's finish is how long the flavor lasts after it is swallowed. Did it last several seconds? Was it light-bodied (like water) or full-bodied (like the consistency of milk)?
After you have taken the time to taste your wine, you might record some of your impressions. Did you like the wine overall? Does it taste better with cheese, bread or a heavy meal? Will you buy it again? If so, jot the wine's name, producer and year down for future reference
put the wine in your mouth swish it around(DO NOT SWALLOW!)spit out, swish some water to get the taste of the last wine out and repeat process
i would suggest to drink an entire bottle within 5 to 8 mintues or so. you'll find that you will feel quite 'jazzy'
Simple. Three steps:
1 Swirl-- look at the wine. Make a mental note of it's color. Is it clear? etc. This just gives you a first impression.
2. Sniff-- go ahead and jam your nose right in there, it's acceptable (actually makes you look like you know what you're doing). Take a big whiff. Is the wine fruity, oaky, whatever. Again, just trying to use all the senses.
3. Sip-- take a sip. Let it sit on your tongue a second. How do you like it? That's all that matters.
Enjoy.
1. pour alittle bit into your glass
2. swoosh it around ( in the glass)
3. dump it out ( it was to sterilise the inside)
4. Then take a small wiff of it and slowly swallow letting all the aromas come through
5. Sip it
I know this because my old neighbors owned a winery
tongue
W/your tounge.
Simple. Wine Bars often have tasting nights. Tell them your here to taste and they will give you a small taste of different wines for a small fee. It is fun to bring` 4-8 people. But if your in for a wild night of fun, go to different wine bars. It's very fun!
Allright girl - ive had to do like ten of these for the restaurants I ran - your best bet is to watch what everyone else is doing and just follow along like ya know whats goin on! Basically, give it a light swirl around the glass (don't spill) and a quick sniff before taking a small sip...also, becareful how many you taste because mixing certain whites and reds will give you an awful stomach ache!
Just take a sip and talk about how you like or don't like it. There does not need to be a proper technique. Just have a good time. You are not a wine judge so it won't matter. No one will look at you funny. I've been to lots of wineries
Start by swirling it around in the glass to release its aroma. Stick your nose right into the glass and inhale slowly. Try to isolate the elements of the aroma. What fruits do you smell, blueberry, apricot, strawberry, apple, pear? Can you smell a trace of the wood that it was aged in? How about the alcohol level?
Then taste the wine by sipping it in with a lot of air. This is noisy, and it spreads the wine throughout the mouth. Ask yourself the same questions about the flavor as you did about the aroma, adding an assessment of its acidity to the inventory. Now the key question: does it please? Do you like it?
If you are tasting more than one wine, spit out what you have sampled and cleanse the palate with some water before continuing to the next wine. A container for this will be supplied.
taste is 70% of what you smell.
first look at the wine,
clarity, (clear-cloudy)
brightness, (dull-brilliant)
Color
Concentration (low-high)
rim variation (does the color change as the wine approaches the edge? not in concentraton, but in actual color)
Gas evidence (Sparkling?)
sediment
Viscosity (low-high) low viscosity (thick wine) has a either a higher alchohol content or sugar remaining in the wine possibly both
Then smell the wine
Intensity (weak-powerful)
Fruit (red? black? pit fruit? tropical?)
non fruit ( leather, floral, spices, etc..)
earth ( mushroom, dust, barnyard, etc..)
then taste it and see if it tasted like it smells. yes? no? after that make a mental note.
a good way to start tasting wine is to think how is this wine different than the last? thats probably the easiest way to jumpstart training your pallette. wineries get everyone from drunk assholes to guys that realy know what they are doing. If you ask qestions and let them answer as you listen attentively you will do fine
To keep the palate properly adjusted, we move from the dry est (most lacking sweetness) to the most sweet (dessert wines.) This rule is for red wines as well as white wines. "Blush" wines are usually a manufactured color using white wines colored in some degree by the pigmentation of the grape skin. Individual flavors of wines are somewhat subjective. Flavors are often described by words that are descriptive,ie "This wine has a hint of currants, with a oak finish." Use a saltine cracker between each wine.