How to Evaluate Wine’s Appearance

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How to Evaluate Wines Appearance for Clarity and
Opaqueness
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Wine tasting comes with the prerequisites of
having the wine at the proper tasting temperature
and using the proper type of glassware.
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A WINES TEMPERATURE
To get the best flavor and aroma of a wine type,
requires paying attention to recommended
temperatures by chilling a wine for a bit before
serving or taste testing it.
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There is only a 10 to 20 degree range between the
lowest recommended temperature in all wine types
(found in light-bodied dessert wines) and the
highest temperature (found with the full-bodied
red wine).
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TAKE NOTE! Storing wine at a proper temperature
is more about the body of the wine than whether
it is a red wine or a white wine.
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Wine Tasting Glassware A wine glasss shape has
some impact on a wine tasters perception in wine
tasting.
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Wine glass is preferred for its egg-shape design,
that is, the bowl of the glass is wider towards
its bottom than it is at its top.
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How to Analyze a Wines Appearance?
first Judge the wines appearance, by its color,
opaqueness, and other characteristics that can be
determined just by looking at the wine.
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next A taster assesses the wines appearance in
the glass, by looking at the wine, a taster
begins to evaluate all that the wine is trying to
REVEAL.
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Color and appearance give the taster an initial
clues about the wine, such as the grape variety
and whether it was aged.
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Recording the Evaluation of Appearance Using
standardized wine tasting descriptors, it helps
a wine taster to find right wine terminology to
describe what they are seeing.
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