Natural Wines

Wine Tasting - What is it all about?

Wine tasting is an activity one can take great pleasure in, where you not only use your taste buds, but all the other senses to get the full experience from a wine. Wine tasting is simply the examination and evaluation of a wine, which can be done by anyone as a part of a fun activity – or if you were seriously good; then as a job! Many of the professional wine tasters act as buyers for retailers to ensure that they stock and sell plenty of the yummy wine! Wine tasting can be done at parties, wineries, vineyards or even at your own home!

Usually wine tasting will take place in stages; appearance inspection, the aroma of the wine when ‘in the glass’, the sensat.... Click here to read more

Wine Decanting

The act of decanting is done with the intention of separating out the sediment from the wine.

While it is not an absolute necessity for wines, it’s most important when used with aged red wines, such as ports, where the sediment can be a problem.

When wine is left, tannin and other particles such as suspended pigments solidify and form sediment. This sediment should be removed because it decreases the quality of the wine; making it taste bitter, and less pleasing on the eye with bits floating around.

However it is quite possible to remove this sediment. You do this by keeping the bottle in an upright position for a few days before decanting the wine; .... Click here to read more

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Wine Tasting - What is it all about?

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