1. Look at the wine (preferably on a white background) \ x0d \. Look right above the glass to see if the wine is clear. If it is turbid, it will be bad. \ x0d \ Look from the horizontal direction on the right side of the glass, shake the glass and see the speed when the wine flows down from the glass wall evenly. The thicker the wine, the slower it flows, and the better the quality of the wine. \ x0d \ Observe the side of the glass at a 45-degree angle. At this point, there is a water-like body at the junction between the wine and the glass wall. The wider it is, the higher the alcohol content of the wine is. Different colors can appear at the junction of water body and wine body, thus showing the age of wine. Blue and lavender = 3-5 years old. Red brick color = 5-6 years. Amber = 8-10 year. Orange means it has expired. \x0d\\x0d\2。 Smell the wine \ x0d \ You'd better take a breath of fresh outdoor air before smelling the wine. \ x0d \ Tilt the glass at a 45-degree angle, and probe the tip of the nose into the glass to smell the original smell of the wine. The tender wine still smells fruity. Tibetan wine has a compound fragrance. \ x0d \ After shaking the glass, quickly smell the smell released from the wine to see if it is stable compared with the original smell. \x0d\\x0d\3。 Wine tasting \ x0d \ Take a sip and swirl it in your mouth. If the tannin content in the wine is high, it will feel dry in your mouth, because tannin has astringent effect, which shows that the wine is not fully mature. It is best to achieve a balance between sour-sweet-bitter-salty taste. \x0d\ After spitting or swallowing wine, see how the fragrance in your mouth remains \ x0d \ First of all, it is the knowledge of cork. The ideal cork state should be that only the bottom is wet, while other parts remain dry. Too dry or too wet cork indicates that air has entered the wine, which affects the quality of the wine. Ideally, the bottom of the cork should be wet, while other parts remain dry. In addition, if the wet part of the cork has a sour or bad taste, it means that the bottle of wine may have been opened. \x0d\\x0d\ Secondly, check the "color"; That is, before tasting, pour a small amount of wine into the glass and observe the color of the wine. The color of wine, whether white wine or red wine, should be clear. Some red wines are darker in color, but they are not cloudy. At the same time, the chromaticity of color is also very important, just as purple is usually a lighter wine, crimson is a more mature wine, and brick red or brown represents a more mature wine age. Generally speaking, whether it is white wine or red wine, the quality of deeper wine color is relatively better. \x0d\\x0d\[ Most people who don't understand wine will follow suit and shake their glasses when drinking wine, but they don't know why. In fact, this is the basic action of wine tasting. Good wine, especially red wine, will leave traces of wine after being shaken lightly. Shake the glass gently to make the wine swirl around the glass, then lift the glass to keep it stable and let the wine slide off the glass wall. If the wine slowly slides down and leaves a clear wine mark, it means that the quality of the wine is good. \x0d\\x0d\ Another purpose of gently shaking the wine glass is to let the fragrance of the wine give off, so that the taster can judge the quality of the wine by the process of "smelling the wine". The average person's sense of smell can distinguish more than 100 different smells. Get close to the glass and take a deep breath. A good wine will have its special aroma. The aroma of wine is a very good indicator when tasting wine. Good red wine has a rather complicated smell and will not be mixed with bad smell or strange taste. Those who are good at this can even distinguish from the process of smelling wine, including oak barrels, black cherries, violets, nutmeg, or other different flavors. \x0d\\x0d\ After such steps and simple exercises, can you tell whether the wine in your mouth is sweet or astringent? Is it fruity? How does it taste after drinking? Of course, if you really want to taste the quality of wine, you still have to constantly try to compare all kinds of wines and absorb relevant information before you can be good at this. At the same time, a person will have different views on the same wine with the accumulation of experience. \ x0d \ x0d \ But after all, wine tasting is a very private experience, and the quality of a bottle of wine depends more or less on everyone's preferences. Therefore, wine tasters often have different opinions on the evaluation of the quality of a bottle of wine, but the only constant knowledge is that the process of learning and wine tasting is full of fun and endless attraction! \x0d\ Five basic steps of tasting red wine: color, shaking, smelling wine, tasting and aftertaste \x0d\\x0d\ (1) color. \x0d\\x0d\ If you want to see the color of wine, you'd better have a white background and put the glass in front of it. Of course, the color range depends on whether you taste white wine (hereinafter referred to as white wine) or red wine. The following are the colors of two kinds of wine: white wine has light yellow green, straw yellow, golden, gold, dark gold, madeira wine color and brown; Red wine includes purple, ruby, medicinal brick red, reddish brown and brown. Color will tell you a lot about wine, such as white wine. When they get old, they will deepen their color. On the contrary, red wine will lose its color. \ x0d \ x0d \ (2) Shake. \x0d\\x0d\ Why do you want to shake the wine? In order to let oxygen into the wine. I'm not sure whether you are right or not, but I can tell you directly: shaking will release esters, ethers and acetaldehyde, and make the wine fragrant with oxygen. \ x0d \ x0d \ (3) smell wine. \x0d\\x0d\ Now that you have shaken it to release the aroma, what does the wine smell like? It has that form of NOSE, and "NOSE" is a word that wine tasters usually use to describe the comprehensive smell of wine. Accurately pointing out the meaning of wine NOSE is to enable you to identify some characteristics of wine. \ x0d \ x0d \ (4) Taste. \x0d\\x0d\ For most people, tasting wine means taking a sip of wine and swallowing it quickly. But it's not wine tasting. Tasting wine is a thing to do with taste buds. Remember that it is all around your mouth; Both sides of the tongue, the back of the tongue, the tip of the tongue, and extending to the bottom of the larynx. If you drink wine like most people, you will ignore all the important taste buds. \ x0d \ x0d \ There is an ancient honesty in the wine industry: "Buy apples for wine and sell cheese for wine". Apple will show the defects in wine, while cheese tends to soften the smell of wine, leaving you a more pleasant taste. \x0d\\x0d\ (5) aftertaste. \x0d\\x0d\ When you have a chance to taste the wine, sit for a while and savor the wine. Think about your experience just now and ask yourself the following questions to help you deepen your impression. Is the wine \ x0d \ x0d \ ⊙ light, moderately rich, or rich? \x0d\⊙ Liquor: What's the acidity? Very little, just right, or too sour? \x0d\⊙ Red wine: Is the tannin too strong or too astringent? Is it pleasant? Or is there no tannin? How long does the aftertaste last? \x0d\⊙ The most important thing is whether you like this bottle of wine or not. \x0d\⊙ Is the price worth it? \x0d\\x0d\ Here comes another key point. When you taste a wine, the first thing is whether you like it or not. Is it the wine you want? \x0d\\x0d\ Let's talk about the traditional knowledge of wine tasting. \x0d\\x0d\ Step 1: The taste of red wine is astringent after the wine is chilled \x0d\\x0d\ Traditionally, the temperature of drinking red wine is cool room temperature, ranging from 18 to 2 1 degree Celsius, and at this temperature, red wine of various years is in the best condition. A bottle of chilled red wine has more obvious tannins than red wine at cool room temperature, so it tastes astringent. \x0d\\x0d\ Step 2: The hangover red wine is not fragrant enough until it is fully oxidized \x0d\\x0d\ A bottle of good wine is usually dusty for many years, and when it is just opened, there will be an odor. At this time, it is necessary to "wake up" the wine. After pouring the wine into a beautiful decanter, the odor of the wine will dissipate. The decanter generally requires that the wine contact with the air. \x0d\\x0d\ Step 3: Watch the wine. The edge of the aged wine is brown. \x0d\\x0d\ The red color of red wine is enough to stir people's hearts. When pouring red wine, the basic requirement is that the glass is placed horizontally and the wine does not overflow. When the light is sufficient, put the red wine glass horizontally on the white paper, and you can judge the age of the wine by watching the edge of the red wine. Those with distinct layers are mostly new wines, and those with uniform colors are a little old. If they are slightly brown, they may encounter a bottle of old wine. \x0d\\x0d\ Step 4: Let it stay in your mouth for a while after drinking \x0d\\x0d\ Before you enter the wine, you can deeply smell it in the glass, and then you can understand the delicate fragrance of the red wine, and then you can swallow it, so that the red wine can be stop for a minute in your mouth and rolled twice on your tongue, so that your senses can fully experience the red wine, and finally you can swallow it all. \x0d\\x0d\ Step 5: Taste the new wine before the old wine \x0d\\x0d\ A wine tasting party usually tastes more than two or three pieces of red wine in order to achieve the effect of comparison. When drinking, we should follow the principle that the new comes first, the old comes later, and the light comes first and the strong comes later. \x0d\\x0d\ There are also some tips from experts and experiences discussed with people: \x0d\\x0d\ First of all, a good red wine should look at the appearance, and the lighter the color, the better. This is contrary to white wine. There should be no sediment in it. The sediment is mostly the skin of grapes, which is not good. \ x0d \ x0d \ Secondly, Red wine needs a special arc-shaped cup, which is slowly shaken in front of the nose, and the aroma of wine will go up with the cup wall and slowly enter the nose. At this time, red wine has already been tasted. \ x0d \ x0d \ Fourth, after the red wine is imported, use the tip of the tongue first, which is sweet in acid and less bitter. \ x0d \ x0d \ Fifth, squeeze the red wine to the mouth with your tongue. \x0d\\x0d\ Different wines have different drinking temperatures. \ x0d \ x0d \ dry white wine 8- 10? C \ x0d \ x0d \ semi-dry white wine 8- 12? C \ x0d \ x0d \ semi-sweet/sweet wine 10- 12? C \ x0d \ x0d \ dry red wine 16-22? C \ x0d \ x0d \ semi-dry red wine 16- 18? C \ x0d \ x0d \ semi-sweet/sweet wine 14- 16? C \ x0d \ x0d \ brandy 15? \x0d\\x0d\ sparkling wine (champagne) below c 10? The temperature below \ x0d \ x0d \ above C is for reference only, and the drinking temperature is not equal to the tasting temperature. For example, sweet wines may have to be cooled down to taste sweetness; Brandy, on the other hand, should be grasped by hand to make the wine temperature rise to room temperature, which is the best tasting temperature, and should be used flexibly according to the situation. \x0d\\x0d\ After a bottle of wine is put in the refrigerator, the temperature of the wine will drop after 1 hour/hour. C, generally, as long as red wine is put in the refrigerator 1 hour, the wine temperature will drop to 20? Below C. If you forget how long the red wine has been in the refrigerator, don't worry. Just take it out, open it and pour it into the cup. After about 30 minutes, the temperature of the red wine will be about 20? C, which is what we mean by "room temperature". It is enough to put white wine in the refrigerator for 2 hours or in a barrel filled with ice water for 20 minutes.