Red wine is stored flat, and the cork will decompose and produce wood shavings if it is soaked for a long time. Stand it upright the day before you drink it to allow the wood chips to settle to the bottom of the bottle. The bottom of a red wine bottle is raised towards the center, which is not designed to hold the bottle, but to allow the wood chips to settle into the grooves. You can't drink red wine on ice, or in an ice bucket like champagne. The optimal drinking temperature is 10 to 14 degrees Celsius.

Trying the wine:

First, look at the color of the wine. For proper observation, place the glass in front of a white background and slightly tilt the glass outward. Watch for wood chips or impurities while observing the color of the wine. Coffee-colored, bad; purplish-red, the wine is very young; dark red with a tawny outer edge, good wine.

Then there is the smell of the wine. Cover the entire mouth of the glass over your nostrils and take a deep breath. Senior red wine smell flavor is very "thick", people feel it is very thick and complex, because the sensitivity of the nose is far more than the tongue, so sometimes a glass of wine slowly tasted an hour, or feel the fragrance is getting thicker and thicker, thicker and thicker so that later let a person a little reluctant to drink.

After smelling the wine, I felt that the flavor is very thick, and then I tried to drink it. I took a shallow sip and held it in my mouth, and with the tip of my tongue, I pushed the wine around the mouth as much as I could, so that all the cells of my tastebuds could feel it.

Pouring:

The bottles of fine wines are collected by people because some labels are simply a work of art. In order to avoid "splashing" the label, the correct way to pour wine is to keep the front of the label facing upwards. In addition, for older wines (over 8-10 years old), there must be wood chips at the bottom of the bottle, even if it is three to five years old. Therefore, be careful when pouring the wine. In addition to not shaking the bottle, at the end of the pour, leave a little on the shoulder of the bottle. It is incorrect to turn the bottle upside down and try to pour the last drop.

Wine:

After opening a bottle of red wine, depending on the type and quality of the wine, as well as the degree of maturity, let it rest for 15 minutes to an hour to allow it to "breathe" with the air to carry out its chemical action. If you don't have the patience, you can pour the wine directly into the glass (according to international standards, not more than one-third of the capacity of the glass), or even shake the glass to accelerate the chance of contact between the wine and the air.

Shaking the glass of wine in two ways, one is to pick up the glass inward shaking, this method of cup suspension, to shake evenly, have a little technology; another method, is to use the middle finger of the forefinger to hold the foot of the cup, the whole palm of the hand flat against the bottom of the cup, the bottom of the cup pressed on the desktop as grinding ink like a rotating, to be a little smaller, do not let the wine spilled out of the mouth of the cup.

Tasting:

Expensive, good wine is a work of art, not to "drink", but to "taste". Before each tasting, shake the glass, inhale y through the nose, and then take a sip, letting the wine remain in the mouth for a while before swallowing.

Note: Wipe your mouth clean before drinking, or you'll get lipstick on your glass. Please don't drink wine in one gulp. In addition, you should not drink red wine with Sprite or lemon, as this will destroy the original flavor of the wine. Shaking the wine glass a glass of wine than the amount of wine is not the way to drink red wine.