WINE TASTING 101

Wine tasting is an art form. Most people don't understand if you drink 8-10 samples of wine and you drink every sample the last one may be the best one. Why? Well after multiple wine samples the alcohol may start taking it's toll on your senses. In wine tasting using your sight,smell and taste are very important. When sampling wine first look at the wine. Look at the color, is your chardonnay light yellow or brownish. Next use your nose and smell the wine. What flavors are you getting fruit, grass, smoke or maybe some leather? If you smell cork after you have opened your wine and poured a glass it is been corked and is bad. Now taste the wine, let your taste buds tell you what is in the wine. NOW SPIT! It's OK. To be a good judge of wine, being sober when you sample the last wine is important. I know it seem wrong to spit out perfectly good wine but you may find the first wine was the best.