How to Drink Wine Like an Expert

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How To Drink Wine Like An Expert
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How to drink wine like an expert?How to drink
wine properly?

• Get the most out of your bottle of wine by
  learning some simple steps.

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Step 1 Look at Color and Clarity (Opaqueness)

• Observe the wine for its opaque characteristics.

Hold up behind the wine glass a white piece of
paper, a white linen napkin, or something that
creates a white neutral background.
Examine the wine by tilting the glass away from
you so that you can observe the wines color
starting at the rim of the glance and following
the wine to the center of the glass.
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• Is the wine heavy, dark, watery, translucent?
• How else could you describe it?
• Is it clear or cloudy, or does it have sediment
  floating in it, like pieces of cork?

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Step 2 Smell

• Release the aroma of your wine..

Swish it around for a good 10 to 12 seconds, and
then sniff it to get a first impression of the
wine.
After that first impression settles, press your
nose down into the wine glass and inhale deeply
through your nose.
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• What are your impressions of the aroma now?

Humans can pick up on thousands of unique
scents. Our sense of smell is key to properly
analyzing a wine.
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Step 3 Taste
Sample the wine, beginning with a little sip and
rolling it around the inside of your mouth,
letting it connect with all of our taste-buds.
Sipping wine slowly allows your taste-buds and
your sense of smell to recognize the finer
flavors of the wine that are not detected as
easily when its gulped down.
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Three phases of taste testing
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1. Attack Phase - the initial impression that
the wine makes on your palate

• Initial sensations acidity, alcohol content,
  residual sugar, and tannins.

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Evolution Phase - refers to the actual taste of
the wine on your palate.

• Discern the wines flavor profile.

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Finish Phase - detect how long a wines flavor
impression lingers after we swallow the wine.

• How long a finish lasts a few seconds, or
  longer?
• Does the taste hang with you or is it
  short-lived?
• What did the wines weight feel like
  light-bodied, medium-bodied, or full-bodied (like
  water, milk, and cream, respectively?)
• What is your last flavor impression (plumy,
  buttery, spicy)?
• Do you taste a remnant of the wine at the back
  of your mouth or throat?
• Do you want another sip or did the wine have too
  bitter an end?

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