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This is the best part of wine-tasting. You
might be enchanted by wine’s sparkling color or mesmerized
by its aroma but it’s actually drinking the wine that
the whole thing is about.
Maybe you are thinking that drinking is the easiest part –
after all we start drinking from a glass from a very young
age and we keep practicing for a lifetime.
However, there’s a real
difference between just swallowing liquid and conscious tasting.
Here, just like in all good things in life, the difference
is in the right technique. The appropriate technique can make
sure we get the best out of the whole experience.
1. Still under the influence
of the aromas you’ve inhaled in step II, take a sip
of the wine. Don’t make it too big or too small. You
need just enough to walk the wine in your mouth and not have
to swallow it just yet. Let wine uncover its secrets. For
reference, you may keep good wine in your mouth for 10 –
15 seconds, sometimes even more.
2. Walk the wine very well in
your mouth, ensuring it touches each part of it. This is important
because our tongue, palate, the inside of the mouth and our
throat each detect different aspects of the wine.
For many years, it was believed
that the tongue has different areas each of which is sensitive
to a particular taste – sweet for the tip of the tongue,
sour for the sides, bitter for the back and salty for the
whole tongue. Today we know that all the tastes can be felt
with the whole tongue, only there’s a “blind”
spot in the middle of it which is not sensitive to any taste.
Another important step in wine
tasting is being able to tell one’s impressions of the
wine. “Astringent”, “elegant”, “fruity”,
“flat”, “young” are only a few words
of the wine vocabulary you’ll need to amass.
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