Try sipping a small amount of wine—not a massive swallow—as if you were pulling it through a straw. All this does is circulate the wine in your mouth and aerate it.

Once more, you'll come across a broad variety of fruit, flower, herb, mineral, barrel, and other flavours. In addition to merely distinguishing flavours, you may assess a wine's complexity, completeness, harmony, and balance with the aid of your taste buds.

You should look for tastes that are similar to or different from those in the aroma of the wine.

From light to full, a wine's taste is influenced by sugar, alcohol, tannin, and acidity. A wine's structural components are these;

#  Sour

#  Sweet

#  Bitter

#  Salty

Because grapes are naturally acidic, all wines will contain some sourness. Climate and wine variety influence this. For example, Pinot Grigio is noted for its bitterness. Some white wines retain a little amount of their grape sugars, which gives them an additional layer of sweetness naturally. However, since only your tongue is able to detect sweetness, you can never smell it. Salty reds and whites are extremely uncommon, but they do exist.

Texture

You may "touch" the wine with your tongue and feel its texture. Several factors affect wine texture, but a higher texture is nearly invariably associated with riper, higher-alcohol wines. We think of ethanol as being "richer" than water, which gives wine its texture. Our tongues can also taste tannin, which is what gives red wines that gritty or drying sensation.

A balanced wine should contain all of its primary flavor elements in the right amounts. Our taste buds can distinguish between sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors.

Wine naturally has both sweet and sour (acidity) flavors that are significant. Saltiness is an uncommon occurrence, and bitterness ought to be more of an astringent sensation (caused by tannins) than a taste.

Most dry wines will have a combination of aroma-derived flavors as well as the tastes of the acids, tannins, and alcohol, which are typically difficult to distinguish solely by smell.

Length

Wine tastes have beginnings, middles (mid-palate), and ends that are time-based (finish). How long until the taste disappears in your mouth? Take note of the flavour's duration.

Majority of novice wine drinkers move on to the next sip too quickly. Stay put! Before switching, let the wine to complete its course in your mouth. Some wines have complex flavours and your capacity to identify and value complexity in wine will serve as a good indicator of your general taste-learning progress.

While you are tasting complex wines, they seem to change. There is always more to see in them, much like in fine paintings. These subtleties can occasionally progress into magnificent qualities in older wines.

Tasting can be more fun if you’re a part of bc wine club as you share your experiences with other wine tasting hobbyist.