hi my name is Jacky Blisson and today and over the next little series of
videos we are going to be talking about how and why to taste wine like a geek
we're gonna talk about why this is important how to go about doing it and
we're then gonna break down the aromas and flavors and components of wine
structure so you can make the most of your glass of wine so let's dive in
alright why tasting why is it important first of
all we taste wines and analyze them to make sure wine is in good condition wine
is a living breathing thing and as such the aromas and flavors are quite
vulnerable to deviation things like cork taint you might have heard of whereby
the cork the natural cork take sighs contaminated by a chemical compound a
mold it gives off a really unpleasant wet newspaper wet dog kind of smell on a
wine that's a wine fault there are loads of them a wine that's
overly exposed to oxygen a wine that doesn't isn't exposed to enough oxygen a
wine that's affected by a spoilage yeast like Bert annum Isis that gives a bit of
a barnyard smell some fun is pleasant some don't all of these things are wine
false if you find a wine has an off flavor or aroma or something about it
that you don't like that you find isn't quite right do not hesitate to return it
it is your bottle of wine during I fear the sommelier you're the one paying for
it you're the one drinking it if you think it's off take it back
the second reason for tasting and really analyzing the glass of wine is just to
enhance your enjoyment of the glass of wine if on a Tuesday you're drinking an
ordinary sort of $10 bottle of wine you just want to unwind analyzing your glass
wine probably not that important but if you're starting to spend a little bit
more money you're starting to embrace your inner wine geek then just taking a
little bit of time to appreciate the color the aroma is the flavors and all
the structure of the wine is you're gonna be amazed by how much more you're
gonna appreciate your glass of wine so let's get to it the first thing we're
gonna do is we're gonna just simply look at our glass of wine the color can tell
you loads it can tell you about the grape Pinot Noir is much paler grape
for example Syrah Cabernet Sauvignon which would be more opaque and deeply
colored I can tell you about the wines condition it can tell you about the
wines age older wines tend to have more of a brown or hue to them so the next
I'm gonna do is take a nice sniff of the wine you can swirl as I've just done but
really if you're not comfortable with that it's not all that important
swirling the wine is just basically aerating and allowing oxygen to marry
and liberate some of those aromas but if you just leave your glass sitting there
for a while it'll happen on its own naturally you
just need to be a little bit more patient so what are you gonna get from
smelling your glass you're gonna get all the aromas you're gonna get a sense of
how intense they are are you is this it gives you a sense of climate as well are
these sort of tart just ripe aromas or these really ripe jammy aromas you're
also going to get sense of how complex the aromatics are and this is a link to
wine quality are you just getting sort of a vague sort of sense of dark fruits
are you were getting really clearly delineated different fruit and spice and
oak and all kinds of different flavors and aromas on this wine that would give
you a lot a lot of information about wine quality the next thing you're gonna
want to do is take a sip the best part so you take a little sip of our wine I
slurped it you don't have to again it's all about your comfort level again it's
all about again aerating the wine to liberate some more of those flavors and
on the palate this is where we get into wine structure which we're going to
break down the next series of videos you get a sense of the wines acidity its
body its alcohol its tannins its sweetness its where there has oak aging
or not there's all kinds of things that you can get from a wine from tasting it
this is the structure wine it's the building blocks that make up the wines
unique DNA which make up its personality really so as I said we're gonna break
this down notably aromas and flavors in one video then acidity alcohol sweetness
or dryness levels and finally tannins over the next course of videos so thank
you very much for joining me I hope you enjoyed this something