Wed, Apr 02, 2014

A guest blog from my London counterpart, Gilbert in the UK
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Different types of Wine Tasting in London

Wine tasting is the evaluation and examination of wine according to its taste and the types of ingredients used in it. Specialists have been evaluating the wine on different criteria like tasting, sight, sniffing and aroma. Wine Tasting London helps to judge the quality and the flavor of the wine. Usually wines have different characteristics, like the wine is complete, complex, evolved, balanced or harmonious. Tasting a sip of wine will help you to either choose it for drinking or not? Sometimes, it guides the drinker on how to choose their wine to drink. These characteristics are listed below;

A balanced wine

A balanced wine is the one that is made up of good proportion of components especially the basic flavors. Our taste buds are able to detect the sour, salty, sweet and bitter tastes. There are two most important components of wine that is bitter and sweet.  Bitter resulting from the tanins and sweet from the sugar content.  The balanced wines   shows the perfect mix of flavors of alcohol, acids,tannins and sweet. Such taste of the wine can’t be judged by smelling it only by taste.

All the wines are made up of different formulas, so it is very important to maintain its balanced flavor. If the wine gives you only one taste rather than the combination of tastes (sour, sugar, bitter, hot, astringent) then it will not be a good wine.

A harmonious wine

A harmonious wine is the one that contains all the ingredients that are important to make a wine. The proportion or the style to mix all the ingredients may vary. Tasting a harmonious wine gives you different flavors on the basis of ingredients used in it.

A complete wine

A complete wine is the one that gives you a pure taste and satisfy the finishing stage of a wine maker. Such wines offer you the full pleasure and relaxation.

A complex wine

A complex wine is the one that is very difficult to find the basic ingredients. It may include many components or the proportion of the components may vary. Tasting the wine and find out its basic ingredients can be handled by an expert. He is the one who used to take wine in a large quantity more often usually daily. Such enthisiastic people can tell you the ingredients by tasting it simply. Wine tasting in London is very popular because people living there are used to drinking wines and other hard drinks more often in their parties. They know the taste and sometimes the smell of different kinds of wines. So they can easily find out the nature of the wine even if you do not mention that.

A good taste of the wine is very important to make the people enthusiastic about it. If the taste of the wine is good then the beginner will drink it for sure without thinking anything about its ingredients. By tasting a sip of wine, a drinker can conclude either he liked or disliked the drink. It may also depend upon the mood, but generally it depends upon the taste and occassion for the drink.