When drinking red wine, how to hold the glass is equally important.

If you want to drink the purest red wine, you need to master the correct wine tasting method and match the most suitable glass to taste the most authentic red wine. Let's take a look at how to get a red wine glass in the most detailed place to drink red wine.

Drinking red wine is very important for wine glasses.

A skilled sommelier always chooses a glass according to the wine. Experts suggest that junior red wine students prepare two basic wine glasses.

Bordeaux glass: Bordeaux glass with large caliber and long cup length can make the wine reach the root of the tongue. They are most suitable for tasting red wine brewed by Cabernet Sauvignon grape varieties, or red wine brewed by two or more grape varieties. For example, tasting bitter Bordeaux wine for the first time will make the ending look sweet!

Burgundy wine glasses: Burgundy wine glasses with large caliber and mellow aroma are suitable for red wine of black Pi Nuo grape varieties, which can make this kind of red wine smell good. The design of the glass also allows the red wine to stay in the middle and back of the tongue, so as to taste the most perfect taste.

On the left is a Bordeaux glass; On the right is the glass of Burgundy.

Three correct ways to hold a wine glass

Top left: Hold the cup foot with a brush.

Above: Holding the bottom of the cup with a tiger's mouth is the best way to shake the cup.

Top right: Hold the bottom of the cup with your thumb and forefinger after making a fist.

Correct posture: When preparing to taste red wine, you should hold the foot of the glass with your hand, not the whole hand, so as to avoid the temperature of your hand affecting the taste of red wine.

How to taste red wine?

Check 1 color:

The first step in wine tasting is to tilt the glass to observe the color of the wine, including clarity and transparency. If the color is red and purple, it means that the wine is still young and lively. If the light color area on the edge of wine is narrow, it usually means that the taste is heavy. In informal occasions, you can try to put white paper or cloth on the outside of the cup and observe the color of red wine under the light, so that it is easier to observe the color difference, especially if the color is clear and not turbid.

Check two smells:

The second step is to smell the wine, let the nose enter the mouth of the glass, and then move the glass up and down several times to let the aroma at the bottom of the red wine emanate. Usually it will bring some fruit, grass, fruit, wood and so on. The better the wine, the richer and more natural the flavor level. If there is a pungent smell, be careful that it is inferior or even fake wine.

Check 3 Taste:

Let a mouthful of wine flow completely in your mouth. You can rinse your mouth and stir with your tongue to feel the acidity, astringency (tannin), body, throat rhyme and aftertaste of the wine. But it can only stay in the mouth for a few seconds, so as not to change the taste due to the increase of wine temperature.

Check 4 rhymes:

Let the wine slide down your throat gently and savor the aftertaste of the red wine. The finer the red wine, the higher the richness. If you drink it in your throat and have no aftertaste like boiled water, you are inferior.

How to match ingredients with wine is the best taste?

In addition to the basic principles of red wine with red meat and white wine with white meat, Wei Jiachang, an expert, suggested that food with strong flavor can be matched with wine with strong body; Oily wine can be paired with wine with heavy tannins and astringent taste. When dessert or steamed or boiled seafood is paired with red wine, it often produces rust or bitterness in the mouth, which makes food suddenly horrible and makes the wine deteriorate. This is an NG combination that needs to be avoided.