12 wines under $10: good, affordable wine is no longer an oxymoron. Tasting Wine. Tasting Wine All About Wine Tasting There’s more to tasting a glass of wine than throwing it down your gullet.
We’ll start slow. Colour Hold the glass over a white background, like a napkin or tablecloth. Wines of France - A guide to French wines. Wine tasting descriptors. Smelling is an important part of wine tasting; it is thought that much of perceived taste is due to olfactory receptors at the back of the nasal cavity.
Aroma vs. bouquet[edit] A common aroma associated with the grape variety Gewürztraminer is lychee fruit.