Word about Wine

The ritual of wine tasting is often taken to seriously by people who take themselves way to serious. it doesn’t have to be that way.

<>Try these steps the next time it’s your job to taste the wine table-side at your favorite restaurant. I call this easy system the five S’s.

1- “See” Look at the wine. Does the red wine have a ruby color or does it look rusty. Does the Chardonnay have a golden color or does it look brown? It a general visual inspection. You’ll know when something is wrong.

2- “Swirl” Hold the glass on the table and move it around in a clockwise direction. This will mix the wine with the air producing a “nose”.

<><>3-“Sniff” Bend the swirling wine glass toward your nose and breath in slowly.
You Should” breath in”concentrating on the aroma.On the most basic level you should like what you smell. A bad wine is easy to pick out, your nose will tell you long befoe you’re taste buds. DON’T smell the cork. You can’t tell anything from the cork. Just leave it be!

4- “Sip” go ahead and taste it. Breath in as you move the wine around in your mouth so the taste buds for sweet and sour each get a crack at the flavor.

5-“Savor” Drink it down and reflect.Did you like the wine. Or did it leave a bad aftertaste. Did it meet or exceed your expectations.

Follow the FIVE S sysytem and you’ll get better at inspecting the wine you order

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