Wine Tip 3 of 20 - Decanting Wine

3. Decant Your Wine by Jacques

People think of decanting old and robust red wines. Most wines actually benefit from decanting:
- Old and robust reds are decanted to filter sediments and aerate
- Young reds needs aeration in order to quickly open.
- Rich, classic white Burgundy will benefit from decanting well before tasting

Here is what NOT to decant:
- Few old red Burgundy wines can accept decanting and could evolve too fast
- Light and fruity white wines will not benefit from decanting
- And finally, let's not lose the bubbles of a fine Champagne

Wine Tip 2 of 20 ~ Smell by Terry August

2. Smell  Your Wine by Terry

Work on your olfactory senses, they have a lot to do with how you taste. If you read about wines and see words like cassis, dark fruit, leather, and such - make a point of smelling some of those items, it will help you identify them in your wine. They make kits that have common aromas of both white and red wines which are helpful. You can also just make a point of smelling things. We were in Burgundy and we kept hearing how this wine smelled of cassis. My husband realized he didn't know what cassis smells like! It is a black current, and you can find bushes about France.


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Wine Tip 1 of 20 - Letting Wine Breathe by Alan Watt

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Wine Tip 1 of 20 is a list compiled from wine experts from the wine industry.

1. Letting Wine Breathe  by Alan

Opening a red wine and letting it get exposure to air is not just some wine related myth, but allows pent up alcohol to dissipate, while letting the flavors, and the bouquet "open up". To really achieve an effect, a small amount of the wine has to be poured off (into a glass) to create enough surface area to make the difference. This is different from "decanting", used usually for an older wine, to allow breathing and capture any sediment that might have formed in the bottle.


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Do’s and Don’ts To Improve Your Wine Tasting Skills

Wine tasting can be as simple as enjoying a glass of wine on the deck at sunset or as complicated as judging flights of wines in a wine competition. If you’d like to get more enjoyment out of every glass of wine, here are some Do’s and Don’ts.

Don’ts

• Don’t put on cologne or perfume before drinking wine

• Don’t brush your teeth right before drinking wine

• Don’t taste red wine before white

Do’s

• To full appreciate a wine’s flavor, inhale, take a sip, roll the liquid around in your mouth, coating your taste buds, and exhale through your nose before swallowing.

• Taste wine at the correct temperature, 50 – 60 degrees for whites, 55 – 65 degrees for rose, and 62 – 68 degrees for reds.

• Instead of just drinking the wine, practice the 5 S’s of wine tasting – See, Swirl, Sniff, Sip and Savor.

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