Wine tasting which order

One of the most important aspects to a wine tasting aside from gathering up a passionate group of winos is the order in which you taste your wine. Before you get too deep in your tasting, pop open the bubbly and toast to your guests. Sparkling wine is light and semi-sweet, aka the perfect start to your tasting. For a number of reasons, whites are simply better to start sipping at the beginning of a wine tasting.

So be sure to taste Chardonnay before Pinot Noir. Dry wines like Riesling should always be sipped prior to Moscato. Doing so vice-versa will cause the sugary vino to create a more acidic feeling on your tongue when moving onto drier wines. Hence why those teensy salads come before your heavy entree. Well, the same thing goes for wine. Progress from lower tannins to higher tannins. Finish your tasting with sweet rich wines such as Port or Sherry. Fortified wines has heavy alcohol content and con override the senses.

Wine Tasting Guidelines Whites before reds. Red wines will typically leave a heavier taste in your mouth Light body before heavy body.

The wines with deeper color are usually heavier, than the lighter colored wines. If you start with a heavy wine, the lighter wine seems almost flavorless Dry before sweet as sugar coats the palate and can make dry wines taste bitter Young vintages before old Fragrant whites before oaky white wines Fortified wines last because of the Alcohol Levels.

Tasting White Wines Start with Sparkling Wines: If your flight contains a sparkling wine start here because of its effervescence. Aromatic White Wines Next, move on to fragrant and sweeter whites like Dry Riesling Semi-Sweet to Sweet Whites Next white wine tasting line-up will be fuller body and semi- sweet and moving to sweet.

Very Sweet and Fortified Sweet Wines Very sweet white wines are often referred to as dessert wines or ice wines These should be the last white wines you taste. Check out all of our events here. As the proprietor of McClain Cellars, I am thrilled to finally do the one thing I have always loved the most. Create amazing wines to be shared with my family and friends. After spending 25 years in the dot-com space, my wife Sofia and I decided to throw caution to the wind and focus on what is really important: family, friends, faith and freedom.

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