The taste

Look and admire

    Watch the coat of the wine : It is the variety of the different hues, the intensity of the colour that make the richness of the wine.

    Watch the legs and the tears : These are traces formed by the wine on the inner surface of the glass. They are more or less numerous, dense or frail. The larger and denser the tears or orches are, the richer in glycerol the wine is. It looks oily. For sparkling wine, one must pay attention to the intensity, the duration ant the fineness of the coming out of the gas.

Appreciate with your nose

   The first "nose" : Without moving the glass, it allows you to detect products that are highly volatile, very often of an extreme delicacy and very elusive. It is then that intrusive smells are discovered, such as residual smells from the fermentation, wine dregs smells, or cork smell.

    Second "nose" : Gently make the wine turn in the glass in order to oxygenate it and to accelerate the oxidation which clears the wine of the dissolved gas and enhances the arome. They say the wine or the "nose" opens.

    Third "nose" : Break the wine by making it slightly rotate in desorderly way. Then let it rest. You will be able to appreciate thanks to this third "nose" the evolution in the flavours.

When the taste is revelated

    Drink a sip and let it rest in the hollow of your tongue. The warming in your mouth exhales the flavour. Another way consists in chewing and make it swirl around in your mouth.

    The tongue only perceives 4 flavours :

        - the sweetness, at the tip of your tongue from the sugar of the wine and of the alcohol

        - the savoury taste, further back in the mouth  from the salified acids of the wine

        - the acid taste on the sides of the tongue, from the free organic acids of the wine (tartaric acid and citric acid)

        - the bitterness at the back of the mouth, from the tannin.

    These flavours are revealed at 3 different moments. The first impression is the attack, that is when the lips dip in the wine fulfil its potential in the hollow of your tongue. When swallowing the first sip, you must appreciate the persistency of the taste in your mouth. The aromatic intensity overcomes the mouth and is measured in seconds.

NICE TASTING !