These explanation will help you learn more about wines, how they tend to taste to people, what flavors you can find and help you learn about what flavors you like. It is not difficult as many people think to learn the tastes of wine. This will show a simple list of common flavors in wines and tell them apart from other flavors.
Instructions
1. When starting to learn about wine tasting, one of the first and easiest steps is to raise a glass of wine, swirl the wine and then breathe in the aroma. This is something that many people see others doing without understanding why. This step often tells more about the wine than an actual taste. Many of the delicate shades of the wine such as pepper, violet, mint and such cannot actually be deduced with the tongue. These flavors all come the sense of smell, which is why wines do not taste as good when the taster has a cold, allergies or some other reason they cannot smell. The nose is one of the most important aspects in tasting wine.
2. When someone swirls wine in their glass, they stir the wine molecules up into the air, so when it is inhaled there are enough molecules as possible into the nose. These wine molecules go past the cilia, which is part of the nose the blocks dirt and dust. Once past the cilia, the wine molecules settle into the olfactory bulb, based on each particular smell. The two olfactory membranes are just under the bridge of the nose and are about stamp sized. This is how someone can smell things like cinnamon, licorice, vanilla and chocolate. It is not that there is chocolate chips in the wine, but that a certain group of chemicals in the wine are identical to that of say a piece of chocolate.
3. Most people can smell up to ten thousand smells, but as we age, our sense of smell deteriorates and things like smoking can also harm the olfactory bulb sensors. There are seven main types of smells a nose can pick up: camphor, ethereal, floral, musk, peppermint, pungent and putrid. Once armed with this knowledge, it will be a new challenge before drinking your wine, to swirl the wine and see what that you can sense to learn more about wine tasting.
4. These are some of the more common smells that are associated with wines.Berries: Blackberry, Raspberry and StrawberryFruits: Apple, Apricot, Banana, Black Currant, Cherry, Citrus, Fig, Lychee, Mango, Melon, Orange, Peach, Pear, Plum and RaisinFlowers: Lavender, Rose, VioletPlants: Grass, Oak, Tea, Tobacco and WoodNuts: Almonds, Hazelnuts, Walnuts and General NuttinessSpices and Herbs: Black Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Licorice, Mint and VanillaVegetables: Asparagus
5. Sometimes this list seems to be a bit overwhelming. There are several ways to help people learn to recognize these smells from other smells. Several companies have started packaging together sample oils with a variety of the normal smells associated with certain wine colors. This is useful for those who are looking for a simple way to understand certain smells. Other ways people have used are tasting wines with foods. This is why a lot of fruits, cheeses and meats are used in wine tasting.
6. Often a problem people have problems figuring out the smells and aromas. An easy way to figure out smells is to do a wine tasting with yourself or with friends. Get together and have a wine tasting with wines that are similar in their flavor groups. Ask your local wine dealer or liquor store to see what type flavors they have. Say if you get a set of wines that have a fruity flavors, print out a chart of fruity flavors and have them nearby for the tasters. Also bring several types of fruits that are in the wines you are trying. Eat the fruit and then sip the wine with the fruit flavor in it. This often helps people taste the flavor more clearly and also help remember the combination of flavors.
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