Wine tasting options for the newcomer

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• Wine tasting options for the newcomer
• Tasting etiquette
• Wine tasting is personal and everyone has their
  preferences. What you may experience as far as
  taste and smell in a particular bottle of wine is
  probably different from the next person. The
  winery offering wine tasting understands this.
  They also know that people have their preferences
  when it comes to how they taste wine. Still, the
  techniques for the wine tasting experience is
  rather uniform. Consider the are the following
• Swirl the wine in the glass for a few seconds to
  allow oxygen to enter the wine. No matter how
  you swirl the wine, your technique is completing
  an important next step in the tasting process
  getting more oxygen into the wine. as soon as a
  wine encounters oxygen, it gives off its aromas
  and also softens, allowing you to take in the
  full essence of the wine.
• Hold the glass by the stem. Your wine is served
  at the perfect temperature, holding the bowl in
  your hands can warm up the wine and have a
  negative effect on its taste.
• Stick your nose in the glass and inhale the
  aromas. Remember, you cannot taste what you
• cannot smell.
• Take a sip and let it sit in your mouth for a few
  seconds to absorb the flavor. Some people
  actually chew the wine, which enhances the
  flavors.
• You can choose to swallow it, or spit into the
  spittoon on the counter. Both options are
• acceptable. There is no high fashion technique
  here, just grab that bucket and spit it out. If
  you are a novice when it comes to wine tasting,
  that is all you need to know to get started.
  Spitting allows you to ample a greater number of
  wines without it going to your head. If you do
  not want to finish the glass, it is perfectly
  acceptable to dump the remainder of the glass in
  the bucket.
• Walk around tasting
• Beyond the tasting room, there is Walk Around
  Tasting. This is a combination of a winery tour,
  and
• a tasting. Typically, the host brings several
  bottles of wine on your tour. Perhaps you will
  all be lead to a garden area of the winery to
  sample the first round. Then you will continue on
  to another place in the winery to taste the next
  wine. This walking tour continues until all the
  wine has been tasted.
• Barrel Tasting
• Barrel tasting is a unique experience that can
  also be part of a tour. This usually occurs where
  the

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