Quick and Easy How To for Wine Tasting

Are you curious about wine? If you are, then you're most likely just as curious about winetasting.  To help you truly experiencethe flavor of a wine, it's important to know that you must slow down and payclose attention to your sense of sight, smell, and of course taste.  To help you, we've created a great and simplelist of basic wine tasting steps.

How to Taste Wine

1.   Hold your wine glass by its stem.  Holding a wine glass by its bowl will quicklywarm the wine from the heat of your hand. 

2.   For an individual wine tasting, about an inch orless of wine should be poured into a glass at a time.  Tastings should begin with the lightest ofwhite wines.  Eventually, move onto theheaviest red wines.

3.   Inspect the wine's color and clarity.  By tilting your wine glass away from you, examinethe wines color from the rim edges to the middle of the glass.  While you do this, it is important to notethat some sort of white background like a napkin, tablecloth, paper, etc' 

4.   While still examining your wine, inspect yourwine's opacity. 

5.   Now it's time to smellyour wine.  First, swirl your glass forabout 10 to 15 seconds.  Next, take aquick whiff of your wine for your first impression.  After your first sniff, place your nose intothe wine glass and intensely inhale through your nose.  Use your second impression to take note of allthe individual scents you can smell in the wine's aroma. Swirl again to mix thearomas and sniff again.

6.   Finally take a small taste. Remember not to swallow it; just let it swirlaround in your mouth.  Take note of itsalcohol content, tannin levels, acidity and residual sugar.  In addition, take note of the wines actualflavor profile. Lastly, take note of how long the wines flavor impression lastsafter it has been swallowed.  What areyour likes and dislikes?

7.   Don't feel the need to consume all of yourwine.  Simply discard the wine into thediscard bucket when you are finished.

8.   If it is available, rinse your glass with waterto keep the palate clean.

The next time you are in the Temecula area, be sure to takethe time to enjoy a delectable Temeculawine tasting at a fine Temeculawinery like Ponte Winery.  Ponte Winery is home to a beautifultasting room where our servers can offer you a wonderful, knowledgeable andinformative introduction to wine appreciation. As one of the finest Temeculawineries, Ponte Winery is home to some of the most delectable wines inSouthern California.  In addition, PonteWinery is proud to be a green wineryas they do everything they can to a sustainablewinery.

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