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Wine tasting
Lexiwine
Pairing wine and food
Visual exam is the first step for wine tasting:
Examination of its color properties is influenced by its grape varieties. It is possible to learn many things about a wine such as where is it from, its vintage, its grape varieties …
Whatever is its color and its tint, the wine must be limpid, troublefree. Trails or fogs are signs of diseases: the wine must be thrown back. Only bitartrate sediments are acceptable, they do not alter its quality. It is precipitation due to a cold snap.
Examination of its limpidity is practiced by interposing the glass between the eyes and a source of light. placed at the same height.
Its transparency (red wine) is determined by examining the wine on a white bottom, a tablecloth or a paper. This examination involves that you tilt our glass. The disk becomes elliptic and its observation informs about the age and moreover about the stage of maturation of a wine. Then you can see color hues.
Intensity of its color can give an idea of its substance. Light color, light wine: steady color, steady wine. The luminosity is also rich in teachings. Bright wines are lively, mat wines are limp.
Its color hues can give information about its stage of maturation and announce its age and allow oenologists to have an idea about the vintage which has been served.
All these visual characteristics establish the color of a wine.
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