Wine Tasting
Facts, tips and ideas about Wine Tasting — and how to find people for it.
Did you know?
You learn to taste wine best together — what one nose catches, the other would never have noticed.
Robert Parker introduced the 100-point scale for wine in 1978 — before that, French tasters had worked with school grades and long descriptions. The scale made wine comparable and changed the whole market.
Source: Wikipedia
Tip
Drink water between each wine. You'll taste the differences better.
Swirl before you smell, not before the first sip. Oxygen is what opens the wine up — if you taste straight from the bottle, you get at most half of what's in the glass.
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