Tonight I went to a wine tasting party and tried to buy a bottle of wine because I love it so much but the lady didn't have what I wanted in stock. Aw well! I learned a lot about tasting, like what to do when tasting a wine for the first time. First, you hold the glass up to check out the color and guess when the wine was bottled. Then you hold the glass to the side to check its legs, which ultimately tells you the extent of the alcohol content. Then you smell the wine by sticking your entire nose into the glass. Then you sip the wine and swirl it around your tongue to get the real taste of it.
I find it amazing that most wine comes from grapes but they all taste very different according to the other ingredients and fermenting process. Also, supposedly wine tastes bitter when you eat a grape first and then sip the wine. I didn't seem to mind though. Even though I enjoy a sweeter bottle of wine, like Riesling or Gewürztraminer, I will drink whatever is around because I like to try new things. I also like to taste different food with wine to see how the taste of the wine changes. It is all very interesting and slightly intoxicating so the intelligent conclusions that I come up with does escape me after one too many. Oops!
