Wine Tasting 101 Identifying Aromas in Wine By Mi's Wine And Cheese Shoppe

Wine Tasting 101 Identifying Aromas in Wine by Mi's Wine And Cheese Shoppe
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When I teach people how to taste wine, I approach
the step of wine aromas by asking them to pick
up the glass, very quickly bring it up to
their nose, putting their nose down into it,
taking a nice deep inhale, putting the glass
down, and thinking about what they smelled;
kind of like this. Usually people look confused,
and I have to draw it out of them. I say,
what do you smell, what do you smell? Sometimes
they say; well, I smell alcohol,
or I smell wood, or I smell fruit, or spice,
and I say; okay, thank you very much, but
what do you really want to say? Eventually
somebody will say; I'm sorry, but
it smells like wine; and I say thank you very
much, and I give that person a round of applause,
because they're right. What I asked them to
do by just picking up the glass and putting
their nose in it, and smelling, was just to
get the initial impression of the smell of
a wine, or the wine's primary or first aroma,
and a wine's primary or first aroma will be;
smells like wine. They don't pay us Sommeliers
to walk around saying smells like wine, so
we made up a word for that, and the word for
a wine's primary aroma; (smells like wine)
is vinosity. It has vinosity, or it is vinos;
smells like wine; that's the way it should
be. After that, you can use some more intensified
wine smelling techniques to bring out all
the other aromas and bouquets in a wine, but
the first smell will always be, smells like
wine.
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