The first thing that you must remember when tasting wine.

The first thing that you must remember when tasting wine is that it is not a test. What you taste will be total unique to you and to no one else. It will be your own experience and no one else so no matter what you might here or be told this is your tasting and you are in control of it.

You might have heard people say that it smell of cabbage and taste of plumb with a lot of oak but do not worry about that. The wine will taste how it tastes unique in most way from any other wine. And there for you as a person will taste it and that will be unique to you. There are a number of terms that are often used in wine tasting and things that you can look for but if you are doing this for the first time then lest start at the beginning.

Start by looking at the wine. Hold it up to the light and hold it at an angel so that you can get as thin a layer of wine on the side of the glass. Look at the light and how it looks in the wine. If it is a white wine how deep is the colure of the wine and does that get very light at the egad end fade away. Or is the colour all the way to the edge of the wine. If it is red do you have deeper red going to pink, or do you see a little drown in the colure. Swill the wine around the glass and see how it looks as it sticks to the glass. Does it coat the glass or does it just run straight back.

Now you want to sniff the wine. Swill the wine quite violently in the glass so the surface of the wine is broken. Then Hold the edge of the rim of the glass just under your nose about half way between you top lip and nostrils. Then tilt the galls so you can just feel the wine on your skin. Now breathe in the aromas that are there. Do this more than just once so you can be sure to get all the aromas that are there as you can not always pick up ever element on the first try.

Now that you have looked and smelt its bouquet you are ready to taste. Sip some of the wine and hold it in your mouth just behind your teeth. Then suck in air threw your teeth and draw it threw the wine, making the characteristic slurping sound. Now this does take a little practice as if you do it too hard with to much wine in your mouth is shout to the back of your throat and you stand coughing and spluttering. Then move the wine all around your mouth. Take on board all the complexity of the flavour, better sweet sharp fruit and acidity. Then if you are tasting many wines spit it out, or swallow.

Then make a note of the wine that you have taste and write it down. For if you are going to taste wine then you need to make motes and compare one to the other.

Then if you can compare notes with other and look things up in a few books. The thing to remember is as I have said before the taste of a wine and how you perceive it to be is up to you and you will soon pick up the terms and sayings that will soon make you sound as expert as the person next to you.