About wine tasting

Wine tasting is an activity that is taken quite seriously by regular drinkers. There are several wine tasting guides that stress on detailed methods of tasting wines and the various ways to appreciate and differentiate between the thousands of wine varieties. Most wine tasting guides explicitly explain the ways to examine each variety of wine by arousing one’s senses and hence evaluating the wine. White wines are said to contain highly volatile compounds and hence vaporization can be made much faster by merely serving it at room temperature. However, red wine is highly aromatic and is usually served at cool temperatures.

The minimal alcohol content of 10-14% in some of the wine varieties like red wine and white wine give them the name of ‘light wines’, while desert wines contain up to 20% of alcohol in them. It is a known fact that the longer a bottle of wine is stored, the better it tastes. Hence, such bottles recommend the consumption of the wine as soon as it opens to avoid the loss of flavor by exposing them to excess air. Relatively younger bottles of wine are usually stored for a couple of hours after opening them to help the contents of the beverage to blend evenly with itself and to settle down in terms of texture and smell.

Wine world’s favorite beverage

The world’s favorite beverage, wine is an alcoholic drink formed by the result of fermentation of grape juice for prolonged periods of time under different conditions and hence giving thousands of wine varieties. People have known to drink wine for nearly 8000 years and its origin has been traced to countries such as Iran and Georgia. It is said to have spread to Europe only in 4500 BC through countries like Greece and Rome. Currently, France is the largest producer and consumer of wine in the world and Italy is the largest when it comes to exporting wine. Some of the most commonly consumed wines varieties include red wine, white wine, barley wine, fruit wine and ginger wine.

Though the per capita consumption of wine by an Indian is lesser than 1 liter, there is a predicted increase of 25% in the demand of wine in India in the next few years. India has many wine varieties to offer to the world owing to the range of grapes found all over the country. Nashik and Bangalore are considered to be the largest producers of Indian Wine. Varieties of Indian wine grown include Anabeshahi and Arkashyam which are table grape varieties.