Introduction to wine tasting

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Introduction to wine tasting
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• When the winery involved is small such as those
  owned by a single family entity, the customers
  get a chance to interact with the wine maker and
  helpful tips are provided on the whole wine
  making process.

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• More often, wine tasting events are done on
  specific days of the week and when bigger groups
  are to attend to attend these events they are
  required to make reservations so that proper
  arrangements can be made and also adequate staffs
  to be provided by the winery.

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History of wine tasting

• Wine tasting date back to many years and has the
  same genesis as the wine making itself. During
  these events customers get to learn a lot about
  wine such as the different flavors and aromas.

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• Most individual tend to think that the whole
  process is as simple as sipping tea or coffee but
  along the way different stages have been
  established for this process

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Tips for wine tasting

• Certain conditions such as noisy environments,
  presence of perfumes odors such as that coming
  from people sweats may adversely affect the
  evaluation of wine through tasting.

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• While observing the wine to be evaluated
  individuals should ensure that the glass is half
  full, they should tilt it to allow the wine to
  roll on the edges of the glass, hold the tilted
  glass to the light.

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• This procedure is mainly for evaluation of wines
  color range. To achieve this, the person tasting
  the wine should ensure that they obtain an angle
  view.

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• Smelling should be done by first swirling the
  bottle to allow the wines alcohol to vaporize
  and then a real quick whiff is taken. These helps
  to create a better judgment of the smell of the
  wine but for more complete judgments the taster
  should ensure that their nose is down onto the
  glass and then inhale.

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• The tasting should involve the taster first
  taking smaller sips and allowing it to be felt in
  the mouth and the throat before taking another
  bigger sip.

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• At this point the taste should allow the wine to
  settle on their stomach. Here the taste evaluate
  the remnant of the wine left on the mouth,
  evaluate it to know whether they are good tasting
  or not, whether the wine is medium-bodied,
  full-bodied or light-bodied.

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• In conclusion it is always appropriate to leave
  the tastes note which basically highlights your
  judgments of the wine. Taster should not be
  limited in expressing their feelings and should
  use any word that better express their whole
  judgement.

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• The taster should include in their note, their
  judgments on the acidity level, tannins and the
  alcohol content. These are very helpful to the
  wineries for improvement of their wines.

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• Wine making is considered incomplete when the
  wine tasting event is lacking, when wineries are
  launching new brands of wines they usually
  invites person to sip these brands and give their
  honest judgments so that the wineries can know
  what to add or reduce. Wine making is a journey
  and wine tasting is one very crucial stage in the
  development of high quality wines.

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