How to taste wine? It's no rocket science, just an appreciation process.
Learning how to taste wines is a straightforward process and is more about enjoying the wine and its story while appreciating it. Look, swirl, smell and taste are simple steps towards acquainting your basic senses towards wine and slowly building a wine vocabulary of your own. Keep in mind wine tasting is majorly dependent on your olfactory receptors, so you do not want to be under the influences of strong flavours and aromas before your wine tasting experience. Look Pour wine into an appropriate wine glass and take a good look at the wine. Here you are looking at the colour and clarity of the wine. Tilt the glass away from you downwards and over a white background, preferably a white paper or a tablecloth. Wine colours are not only confined to red, white and pink. Red wines can have colours from purple, ruby, garnet, red, maroon and even brown. White wine can range from light green, pale yellow, golden, amber, brown in appearance. Wine’s opaqueness helps to access the age ...