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The purpose of the tasting

You can taste for:

-detect faults and virtues of a wine;

-estimate the level of quality and so the price;

-recognize the type of wine;

-compare two or more wines;

-monitor the development and maturation of wine;

-verify the effectiveness of the technologies of work;

-establish the pairing of wine with food;

-assign a score to wines in a competition.

The rules for a proper tasting

Organoleptic analysis requires seriousness and professionalism on the part of the taster is called “professional taster.

It is necessary that those who taste:

-keep the mouth clean;

-not smoke before sampling;

non-personal use perfumes and cosmetics;

-rinse your mouth before you start to neutralize the palate. Among the other wines we can, to remove residual sensory active, eat a piece of bread or a bread stick;

and tasting on an empty stomach: the hours ideals are those of the late morning;

-limits the number of wines to review. After twenty fatigue makes it difficult for the trial;

-Eject, using the special container, the wine after tasting. While not ingested, alcohol enters your bloodstream through mucous membranes of the mouth;

and tasting in silence, without any discussion with other tasters and the relationship with the wine, very personal, requires concentration, not to mention that the judgments of others may influence;

-is kept in shape: long periods of taste do not miss the mouth.

The environment of the tasting

The ideal is a room light (preferably natural light, and if you use artificial lighting, the bulbs are preferable to neon light, that are not “cool” and alter the color), with clear wall colors and neutral, with possibility of ventilation and away from noises.

The room will be crowded and each taster must have at its disposal a table.

The room temperature should be around 18 ° C and relative humidity around 60%.

The glasses for the tasting

Each type of wine has its own form of ideal glass. The glass must be able to distinguish and appreciate how and to the ideal qualities of wine.

The glass must be transparent and colorless should have an oval shape more or less closed, the width should be appropriate for the wine, the board must be inward ol’eterno depending on whether the aromas in a wine tasting should be because it concentrates too soft, or because they grow too intense, and depending on whether you want to direct the wine, while drinking at the tip of the tongue or palate in the bottom of the stem, finally, docrà be long to allow an outlet that does not transmit to wine warmth of the hand.