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If you have ever tried wine tasting you will have seen its quite easy. You don’t need to be an connoisseur and can even begin without any recognised training. Etiquette come first so always serve the ladies before the gentlemen. In most wine tasting parties, you can expect to be served up with a room temperature bottled water. The waster is used to clean your taste buds so they are ready for the next and most likely completely different type of wine. Cold water is not served up as this water will shock your palate which can affect the taste of the wine.

When tasting wine, it is essential that you hold the wine glass by the stem and not cup the bowl in your palm. Your hand can warm up the glass to an extent where it changes the taste of the wine so attempt to avoid this.

Tasting the wine doesn’t just involve placing the wine in your mouth and roll it about your tongue a couple of times before spitting or swallowing.

The first step in sampling wine is by taking a look at its colour. Being able to see the wine clearly is essential so make sure the glass you are using is clean. To be able to see the wine and its true coloring clearly you should use a white background, some people use a white table cloth. White wines are not always perfect white, sometimes they are a shade of green, yellow and even brown. For red wines, you will find that it also has different shades of red, the lighter the color of the red wine is, the older it is.

Try doing a lip examination and look at the coloring of the wine, this can give you some indication as to the age or flavor. Simply tilt your glass and find the coloring of the wine, if it look like a tint of brown it will be an older wine, if it is has a tone of purple then it will be a younger wine.

Testing the scent is the next step and this is done by twirling the wine about the glass to mix in the oxygen and then breath fully through the nostril after placing the glass just above your top lip. The wine could have been in the bottle for a little as six months to many years so by swirling the wine you will be releasing the flavours. If you have ever done any cooking you will blend in the different flavours so mixing wine with air is no different.