Just like there iis a technique for smelling wine and for observing its colour and texture, there is a standard technique for tasting wine. You may see people at wine tastings making strange faces as they gargle the wine in their mouths with a concentrated look on their face.
Well the procedure is actually quite simple. Take a rather small sip of the wine from a proper glass. As you are sipping the wine, open your lips up more and draw air above the tongue, on top of the wine. This wine will oxidize the aromas and release some of the intensity so you can taste it. Be careful not to choke as it will make your sophisticated wine tasting manoeuvre look rather silly.
You should try to focus on figuring out which aromas and flavours are contained in the wine. The most typical ones are fruity, herbal, flowery, earthy, and grassy. Some can be leathery, or smoky, others are toasty, vanilla or coffee like.
It is important to move the wine around your mouth by swirling it a bit, so it hits all your taste buds. This allows the wine to activate all of the taste buds in your mouth, giving you the true flavour of the wine. It also takes a few seconds for the tastes to hit your brain. The sense of taste is a rather slow one, so by swirling it in your mouth, you are allowing your brain to recognize some of the flavours in it.
Well the procedure is actually quite simple. Take a rather small sip of the wine from a proper glass. As you are sipping the wine, open your lips up more and draw air above the tongue, on top of the wine. This wine will oxidize the aromas and release some of the intensity so you can taste it. Be careful not to choke as it will make your sophisticated wine tasting manoeuvre look rather silly.
You should try to focus on figuring out which aromas and flavours are contained in the wine. The most typical ones are fruity, herbal, flowery, earthy, and grassy. Some can be leathery, or smoky, others are toasty, vanilla or coffee like.
It is important to move the wine around your mouth by swirling it a bit, so it hits all your taste buds. This allows the wine to activate all of the taste buds in your mouth, giving you the true flavour of the wine. It also takes a few seconds for the tastes to hit your brain. The sense of taste is a rather slow one, so by swirling it in your mouth, you are allowing your brain to recognize some of the flavours in it.