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.