How to taste wine

When it comes to tasting wine, there are three aspects: smell, taste and finish. We look at each of these individually. 

To smell a wine, you need steady swirl the glass to throw wine on the side of the glass (and thus increase the area of wine in contact with air) as this causes the wine aromas to be released. To swirl effectively, do not fill the glass full - actually less than half full is recommended. Put wine glass up to your nose, you whirling and think about the flavors that are available. Young wines will have primary flavoring for variety (for example, smells are often fruit related). As wines age more secondary aromas develop, which can be more earthy or animalistic. Remember that a wine smells can take many different forms, and very rarely will it just smells like grapes. 

When you taste wine, it is important to realize that something of the flavor that can be sensed actually involves the tongue. Your upper airways are filled with the fragrance of wine when it is in the mouth, and it is your nose receptors, not your taste buds, most of the 'taste'. Then breathe in and out through the nose while the wine in your mouth, out the way wine changes as you keep it there. There are different segments of the taste of wine, as it is in your mouth: the fore-palate applies to your first impression in the middle of your palate to taste after a few seconds, and the ultimate palate for the wines final taste. Each of these will be different, so look for the changes in taste. 

When you consume wine, you experience complete. It will often differ from how the wine came across on the palate. The variants may linger for a while in the mouth after wine has been swallowed, and this is called length. The more length a wine has, the more time you have to enjoy it and it is probably true to say that these wines are generally of better quality.