We know you are there-people who like to ridicule others say, "Hey, I learned how to taste wine. I taste it every day and make it 3 ~ 5 times a day. The deception of tasting wine is just another way to make wine look more exotic. "
You know, to some extent, the cynic is right. Anyone who can taste coffee or hamburgers can taste wine. All you need is a nose, taste buds and brain. One of our friends was a beauty teacher in the 1960s. Because she used perming liquid every day, her sense of smell failed. Unless you are like him, you have all the qualities needed to taste wine correctly.
You also have all the qualities to speak Mandarin. However, only the ability to do things is different from knowing how to do things and applying the methods of doing things to daily life.
You drink drinks every day, when these drinks pass through your mouth, that is, when you taste them. But for wine, drinking harmony is not the same thing. Wine is much more complicated than other drinks: a sip of wine has more flavor. For example, most wines have many different (subtle) flavors, and at the same time, when you sip wine, these flavors will make you feel multiple, such as soft and strong flavors. If you just drink wine, it's like swallowing soda, and you've lost a lot of what you deserve. But if you are tasting wine, you will find the subtle differences between them. In fact, the more you taste wine slowly and carefully, the more interested you are in it.
(2) In this way, we have two basic rules for tasting wine:
1. There are two very complicated rules for wine tasting.
You drink drinks every day, and when these drinks pass through your mouth, you will taste them. But for wine, drinking harmony is not the same thing. Wine is much more complicated than other drinks: a sip of wine has more flavor. For example, most wines have many different (subtle) flavors, and at the same time, when you sip wine, these flavors will make you feel multiple, such as soft and strong flavors.
If you just drink wine, it's like swallowing soda, and you've lost a lot of what you deserve. But if you are tasting wine, you will find the subtle differences between them. In fact, the more you taste wine slowly and carefully, the more interested you are in it.
So we have two basic rules for wine tasting:
Take your time.
2. The appearance of wine
We like to appreciate the appearance of the wine in the glass, appreciate its brilliance, appreciate the way it reflects light, and want to find out what kind of red it belongs to. If you spill it on the tablecloth from the tilted cup, the dirty tablecloth will not be cleaned.
Many books tell you to see if the wine is clear (because turbidity indicates that the wine is defective), but this advice is out of date. Since high technology has been applied to wine manufacturing, it is as rare as winning the lottery to see that wine is defective. You may drink wine every night of the year, but you have never met cloudy wine.
But look at the bar you want to drink. Tilt the glass (half cup), and then look at the color of the wine with a white background, such as a tablecloth or a piece of paper (a colored background will change the color of the wine). For the record, just pay attention to how dark or light the wine is in the tilted glass, and what color it is. Finally, you will start to notice the difference between one wine and another, but now all you have to do is observe.
If you have leisure time, you can shake the glass and let the wine rotate in the glass, and observe the way the wine flows down the inner wall of the glass. Some wines flow in strips, while others are spherical. Once upon a time, this phenomenon of hanging cups was a symbol of high quality and rich wine. Today, we know that this phenomenon is related to the surface tension of wine and the evaporation rate of alcohol. If you are a physicist, this is a good opportunity to show your professional knowledge and inspire your fellow sommeliers-but if you are not, don't draw anything from the phenomenon of hanging cups.
3. The nose knows the smell
Now let's introduce the most interesting part of wine tasting: spinning and inhaling. When you give full play to your imagination, no one dares to disagree with you. If you say that a wine smells like wild strawberries, who can prove that this is not true?
To smell better, first spin the wine in a glass. But if there is more than half a glass of wine in the glass, don't consider spinning this glass of wine.
Put the cup on the table, then rotate it, let the wine swirl on the inner wall of the cup, and the air is mixed with the wine. Then quickly put the glass in front of your nose and put your nose as deep as possible into the hollow of the glass to smell the wine, but don't touch it. Free association: This perfume is fruity, woody, fresh and cooked. This fragrance is strong and light? Your nose should smell fast, but it will recover soon. Wait a moment and try again. Listen to friends' comments and see if you can find something like them.
Smell something else, your nose will soon regain consciousness, such as your water, a piece of bread or your sleeve-but be prepared to accept the strange eyes of people around you.
When you spin the wine, its fragrance will evaporate, so you can smell them. There are many aromatic compounds in wine, so what you smell is not imaginary.
The key to the whole ceremony is that the smell you smell must make you happy, even intoxicating, and you will have fun in the whole process. But what if you smell something you don't like?
There is no denying that wine may have a bad taste. This situation does not happen often, but it does exist, because wine is a natural agricultural product and has its own will. When wine has serious defects, it is often immediately reflected by the smell of grapes. The sommelier has a special word to replace this wine, dnpim-don't enter. It's not that you will get sick after drinking it, but that your nose has been treated so badly. Why do your taste buds suffer the same treatment again? Advantages, this happens because the cork is not good, sometimes because there are some problems during brewing or storage. Put it on the shelf and open another bottle.
When it comes to smelling wine, many people are worried that they may not be able to distinguish many smells as expected. "Smelling wine" is actually a combination of practice and attention. If you pay more attention to different smells in your daily life, you will make progress in smelling wine.
4. Oral activities
After observing and smelling the wine, you can taste it Adult men and women sit together, make strange expressions, gurgle from time to time or let the wine turn around in their mouths, and their eyes show tension and concentration. Taste the wine.
Here are the steps of the whole process: take a sip of wine, neither too big nor too small; Put the wine in your mouth, pucker up your lips and inhale some air to cover it; Be absolutely careful, don't gag or drip, or people will suspect that you are not a wine tasting expert. Let the wine swirl in your mouth and make a swish sound, just like chewing; Then swallow the wine. The whole process takes a few seconds, depending on your concentration on wine.
Step 5 feel the taste
Different parts of the tongue are responsible for different feelings. Sweetness is mainly felt in front of the tongue, sourness is felt on both sides of the tongue, and bitterness is mainly felt behind the tongue. The tongue will also feel salty, which is not common in wine. Let the wine spin in your mouth, so that it has a chance to touch all parts of your tongue, so that you won't miss any taste in the wine.
When you let the wine spin in your mouth, you are also buying yourself time. It takes your brain a few seconds to judge what your tongue tastes like and figure out what it tastes like. The first thing your brain experiences is a certain sweetness, because this sweetness is felt in the first part of wine in your mouth. The second step is to experience acid (that is, what most people call sour taste) and then feel bitter taste. When your brain distinguishes between sweetness, sourness and bitterness, you may also be thinking about the feeling of wine in your mouth-strong, light, mellow, strong and so on.
Step 6 taste the smell
Before you smell the wine, what you can taste in the wine is the weight and texture of sweet, sour and bitter flavors. Where is the smell of wild strawberries? They are still in the wine, just behind the taste of chocolate and plums. But-to be precise-these smells are actually smells. You don't taste them by touching your tongue, but feel them by inhaling them into the internal nasal passage behind your mouth called the posterior nasal passage. When you inhale the air on the surface of the wine, you have already given off these scents, just like when you spin the glass.
After hearing so much, it's time for you to draw a conclusion. Do you like the smell? Your answer may be: yes, yes, shrug your shoulders or "I'm not sure, let me try again", which shows that you are likely to become an annoying drinker.