If you have ever tried wine tasting you will have found its quite simple. You don’t need to be an expert and can even begin without any recognized training. Etiquette come first so always serve the ladies before the men. In most wine sampling parties, you can expect to be served up with a room temperature bottled water. The water is to rinse your mouth between tastings in order for your palate to be fresh for the next wine. Make sure that the water you are given is not too cold as this can shock the roof of the mouth and ruin the taste of your next drink.

When tasting wine, it is important that you hold the wine glass by the stem and not cup the bowl in your palm. The use of this is that it prevents you from warming the wine with your hands, you have to remember that this will also impact the overall taste of the wine.

Wine sampling is not simply a matter of wrapping the wine about your tongue a few times then spitting it out or swallowing.

The first step in sampling wine is by taking a look at its colour. The glasses served up should always be clean and clear in order for you take a good look at the wine. Use a white backdrop when checking the color of the wine, this will help you to see the true color and clarity of the wine. White doesn’t always mean white when it come to wine, you can sometimes find white wine with a brown, yellow or even green shade. Again red isn’t always a pure red, you can have lots of different shaded but older red wine tend to be a little lighter.

Try doing a rim examination and look at the colour of the wine, this can give you some indication as to the age or flavor. You can tell the age of the wine by tilting the glass and observing the different colors, a purple color will be a young wine and a brown coloring will suggest an older wine.

scented the wine is the next step, twirl the wine around the rim of the glass to air it then take a deep breath through your nose to smell the scent. The wine could have been in the bottle for a little as six months to many years so by swirling the wine you will be releasing the flavours. blending wine from the bottle with oxygen is no different that blending all the components together when cooking.