Check out the colour, opacity, and viscosity (wine legs). Remember that, the more a white wine is golden, the more it is aged and complex; the more a red wine is garnet, the more it is old and deep. While swirling the wine, pay attention to the resistance of the wine in your glass. If you have the same “weight” sensation as if it was water, then this means the wine is very light and fresh (e.g. high in acidity). On the contrary, if the wine is very dense, almost “syrupy”, this means the wine will be very rich, full bodied, and probably also high in alcohol
The golden rule of wine tasting: your nose is the key to your palate. Once you learn how to describe and understand a wine through your nose, you will begin to develop the ability to anticipate what a wine should be tasting like
By swirling the wine before you taste it, you release many aromas of the wine
aromas from aging in oak or in the bottle. Cloves, vanilla, baking spices, roasted nuts, tobacco, dark leather, caramel and chocolate are just a few of the typical tertiary aroma you can easily find in oak aged wine
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