| Most people like to enjoy a glass of wine once in | | | | to see which you prefer. However, you should |
| a while, but to other people, drinking wine is an art | | | | never attempt to drink a wine before you have |
| form and they take it very seriously. The | | | | taken a long sniff and allowed your senses to |
| following article will give you tips on how to drink, | | | | take it in. |
| taste and serve wine professionally. | | | | When you take a sip of wine, allow it to linger on |
| All wine should be poured into a clear glass and | | | | your taste buds while swishing it around the |
| held in front of a white back ground, so that you | | | | entirety of your mouth, allowing it to come in |
| can examine the color. The color of wines varies | | | | contact with all of your taste buds, including ones |
| greatly, even with the same type of wine. White | | | | found on the underside of your tongue. Contrary |
| wines vary from light green to brownish in color, | | | | to what some of us learned in school, all taste |
| where a browner tinge usually indicates age and | | | | buds are capable of detecting all types of flavors, |
| more flavor. Red wines on the other had tend to | | | | including sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Sipping your |
| become lighter in color as they age. While red | | | | wine slowly this way will allow your taste buds, as |
| wine improves with age, aging tends to ruin many | | | | well as your sense of smell to identify the finer |
| whites. | | | | points that are not as easily detected in fine |
| Before you take a drink of wine, swish your glass | | | | wines. Your first swig will be the initial sense you |
| around to release the different flavors in it, and | | | | get from the wine, this will awaken your taste |
| take a smell of it. Research has shown that taste | | | | buds and get them going. Now is when you should |
| relies on smell about 70-75%; which is why you | | | | swish the wine around your mouth, and try to |
| cannot taste much when you have a cold. When | | | | draw in a little air. Try to notice the body of the |
| you take the time to sniff your wine, you are | | | | wine, for example, is it smooth and rich, or light |
| allowing your taste buds to better pick up subtle | | | | and smooth? Before you take another sip of |
| hints of flavor in the wine. You can smell wine | | | | wine, relax and see how the after taste is. How |
| two different ways. You can either take a quick | | | | long did the flavor of the wine stay in your |
| sniff and then sit back to think about the first | | | | mouth, and was it a pleasant experience? |
| impression the wine gave you and then take a | | | | This is a basic guide to the novice wine drinker. |
| longer, deeper smell before allowing the smell to | | | | Many wine connoisseurs take this art very |
| make an impression and taking a swig. Or you can | | | | seriously, and many guides and books can be |
| just take the deep smell. Usually this depends on | | | | purchased as you become more and more |
| the persons preference, so you should try both | | | | experienced in the fine art of wine tasting. |