Have you ever wondered why men and women in the wine tasting go through a kind of ritual of tilting their glass, swirling the wine around the bowl, sniffing the wine and, apparently, gargle with wine before finally spit it out?
For those who have, since this whole process is actually not such a mystery and quite basically represents the five steps that are necessary to assess the quality of a wine.
Let’s look at each of these five steps to see how easy process is final.
-Test of color and clarity of a wine.
Within the case of red wines by the glass must be sealed and then viewed against a white background. If you examine the edge, or lip, of the wine to the glass and sees a dark color that is clear to the edge as this suggests a very young wine. A slightly lighter color that tends to keep to the center of the glass with a large clear lip is a sign of a mature wine.
For white wines clarity is assessed by looking straight down into the wine. The greater the clarity, the additional wine seems to sparkle, like diamonds.