January 15, 2008 in Basics of Wine
If wine tasting technique had to be boiled down to just two words, they would be:
Have patience
The Technique
The process of tasting wine can be described in 5 simple steps:
See
Swirl
Sniff
Swish
Swallow
See
Enjoying the visible characteristics of a glass of wine is the beginning of the experience. You can often get a sense of the wine’s taste from inspecting […]
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January 2, 2008 in Basics of Wine
To really understand wine, you have to know how it is made. The basic process is really fairly simple:
Grow the grapes
Pick the grapes
Crush the grapes
Collect the juice in a large cask called a fermentation cask. In the cask, the yeast that naturally exists on the grapes causes the juice to ferment. Fermentation […]
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