How to taste wine Part 2

The smell

Maybe it sounds strange, but first we taste with our nose. If we plug our nose in a complex wine, a kind of feeling may arise that a full lexicon of data, sensation, impression break into our neck.
The real fun starts here.
Breathe deeply the wine fragrance what emerging in the glass.
Always the first impression is the best, with time more and more aromatic notes could come out to surface of course.
At this stage can comes the grape variety, the wine’s style and intensity, and of course the errors.
If you feel the wine is wrong, (it can recalls vinegar) or it’s strongly uncomfortable from other point of view, feel free to send back!

Taste

We have now reached the peak (in the best case orgasm in the worst case disappointment).
Keep the wine in your mouth for a few seconds and try to solve it’s mystery.
Experts call this with a magical word “Terroir”!

If they mumble about a wine with such intention, that means good.Start to turn in your mouth to get more benefit from the taste experience.

Then summarize your views.

Try to find a companion to the wine, it can be a food, which stresses it’s virtues, or a tasting place which makes it more interesting, or a friend who we would happily show.
This method can only be good, if the final result will be even better from them.
Thus, second, third, we zoom to perfection.

Spit or swallow?

If you like the taste of wine, and the circumstances allow (chauffer, public transport, etc.) swallow. Because the wine is actually about this, not to mention that it’s healthy in moderate quantities. However, if you want to taste many different wines, or maybe you don’t like the taste of wine, you can spit out, as far as possible into a spittoon or container.

How to taste wine Part 1

First Steps …

What you would like to know about wine tasting!

Wine is a luxury product or we can call a panacea. Besides the fact that it is able to both energize and relax, launch discussions with the winemaker with your friends or your love.

So it is not the point, that where, when and with whom to sample.

Only one thing counts:

Taste more, of course, within the limits of health. The rule In case of Wine tasting is, (if you are not among judges at a competition) that there is no rule. Of course, there are some good advice, which is recommend to observe in order to achieve the maximal pleasure.

The Spectacle

To do this, can help a white surface, like a white sheet of paper. If we examine the wine before this clear background ones, some early conclusions can be drawn down of age, or style. In general, it could be say that, while the white wines darken over time, the Reds fade.

About the spinning of wine

An interesting habit that often can be observed in almost all wine events. Can be a simple way to deduct nervousness. At the same time useful, because the wine contact with air on bigger surface and as a result, more fragrance release. In addition, we can get new information of the alcoholic strength and character as the way how the wine flow back on the glass wall (sophisticatedly call this as church window or tear effect) The full-bodied wine goes back more slowly than it’s lighter fresher mates.

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I am Bálint Takács, the owner of the Hungarian Wine House, and I am passionate about promoting the fine wines from the 22 Regions of my homeland in Hungary. I will be writing regularly about the different grapes, wines and vintages , and look forward to hearing your views about Hungarian wines.