Do you love WINE?

Do you love wine? YES, I do….

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  What is WINE?
  Wine is the naturally fermented juices of freshly gather ripe grapes which have been pressed.
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  How grape juice turns to wine?
  Here is what happens to grape juice, which has grape sugar in it, the yeast which is all about us in the air, settles on the grapes and starts a blitzkrieg on each sugar molecule, splitting it into equal parts of alcohol and carbonic acid gas. If fermentation takes place in an open vat, the gas escapes into the air, leaving the alcohol behind. Voila! So the grape juice will be transmitted into wine.
  
  Classification of Wine
  
  

Sparkling wine – a wine whose carbon dioxide is created and trapped in the wine
through the second fermentation

Still wine – a wine that all the
alcohol is derived from single fermentation (red wine, white wine, rose
wine)

Fortified wine – a wine which has higher alcohol contents
compared to still wine (between 15% - 24%)

Aromatized wine – a wine
where aromatic flavours are added into the wine.

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  Wine Tasting & Wine Assessment
  
  We need to assess the sight (colour), smell and taste of a wine and compare them to a set of standards.
  
  Importance ratio / scoring – colour (3), smell (7) and taste (10), therefore final score out of 20.
  
  Sight (see) – using the eyes to judge condition and colour (determine density of colour and clarity of the wine)
  
  Smell(sniff) – using the nose to judge aroma and bouquet (characteristics detectable by smell : age, variety, faults)
  
  Taste (sip) – using the palate to judge the taste, flavour, age and mouthful of the wine (oxidized, taste & gulp)
  
  *Swirl – swirl the wine in the wine glass to determine alcohol (tears / legs)
  
  
  A wine must have clean, fruity bouquet and a pleasant taste on the palate. There is a beauty in the brilliant colour, the colour also gives the first indication of the wine’s body; the deeper the colour, the fuller it will be. Mind you, naturally this applies to wines of the same type. To totally dissimilar wines cannot be compared.
  
  After the appeal to the eye comes the sense of smell. The bouquet, aroma of the wine, tells you much of what the taste will be. Finally, the palate should confirm it.
  Wine tasting should be done seriously. But in drinking wine is for pleasure and enjoyment, which the wine gives. J
  
  The selection of wine on the menu which is a matter of personal taste and opinion. Most of the wine lead to many food and personal preference is the deciding factor.
  
  

Common Wine Term
Fruity
Crisp
Rich
Off
Corked
Taint
Flat
Dull
Dry
Sweet
Smooth
Spice
Body: light, medium & full

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  Serving Temperatures
  
  Red wine: 18˚ - 22˚ c
  
  White wine: 12˚ - 16˚ c
  
  Dessert wines, Champagne & other Sparkling wines: 6˚ - 8˚ c