Generally, people use goblets to drink red wine. The posture of drinking red wine with goblets is very elegant and beautiful. Why use goblets to drink red wine? Why shake them before drinking red wine?
The reason why a goblet is used for red wine is that each red wine has its best drinking temperature, which is 13-18 ℃ for red wine, 7-13 ℃ for white wine and 6-10 ℃ for sparkling wine. These wines are the most delicious to drink at these temperatures, but our body temperature, generally at 36 ℃, if we use a common water cup, the hand directly contacts the body of the cup, it will inevitably affect the flavor of the wine. And the composition of goblet wine glass is generally composed of coaster, stem and belly. The coaster is used to support the wine glass, and the cup stem is used by people to hold the wine glass. Because wine is extremely sensitive to temperature, holding the stem of the goblet can prevent the temperature from affecting the wine temperature, and then affect the taste of wine.
Secondly, goblets are good for color and smell. Wine cup has excellent transparency, which is very suitable for color observation. In addition, because alcohol is a volatile substance, when alcohol volatilizes from the surface of wine, the fragrance will also be emitted. It is found that only the mouth of the wine cup can form a ring-shaped aroma belt, which is most suitable for the drinker to smell.
Moreover, the color of wine can often reveal the information such as the vintage / aging time, grape varieties and whether the wine has gone bad. The goblet has excellent transparency and is very suitable for color viewing.
In addition, the goblet is good for shaking. Usually, the belly of a wine glass is wider than the mouth of the glass, so that when you shake the glass to sober up, you won't spill the wine.
Preparation before drinking red wine
1. Before drinking red wine, use a special bottle opener a quarter of an hour in advance. Pay attention to open the bottle cover of red wine in the right way, and put it there temporarily, waiting for the oxygen in the air to oxidize the red wine, so that the ingredients in the red wine can play out.
2. Pour in red wine. It's very different from other wines. Red wine cup is relatively large, and when pouring, it is usually poured in about one third. Even if it's down, don't exceed the average. The elegance and elegance of red wine has its own drinking method, that is, the so-called wine culture.
3. Don't drink it right away after inverting it in a red wine glass. Hold the high foot part of the red wine goblet with your fingers, draw a circle, gently shake the red wine goblet, let the wine in it rotate around the cup, so as to make the red wine more fully oxidized.
Correct tasting steps of red wine 1. Wine observation: most layered red wine is new wine; even color red wine indicates that it has a certain year; if the color of red wine is slightly brown, it may be an old wine.
2. Shake wine: shake the wine cup slowly, which will release the vinegar, ether and acetaldehyde in the wine, at the same time, make the oxygen enter the wine, and have chemical effect with the wine, make the wine mellower, and make the wine's fragrance play out to the maximum extent.
3. Smell wine: when smelling wine, you can find the most obvious smell or typical smell of red wine from different positions of the wine cup, such as the central position of the cup mouth, the upper edge of the cup mouth, etc. The words used to describe smell include: attractive grape flavor, burnt flavor, light, clear, metallic flavor, vanilla flavor, cork flavor, nut flavor, comprehensive flavor, moldy flavor, etc.
4. Wine Tasting: wine tasting focuses on the word "tasting". China's white strong wine, burning throat, so drink when a dry mouth. However, red wine can't be drunk like this. After the red wine is imported, it should be allowed to stay in the oral cavity for a long time, so that the wine can cover the whole oral cavity, fully contact the oral cells, so as to taste and judge its subtle taste. To learn to taste wine with the tongue, first taste it with the tip of the tongue, then squeeze the red wine to the two sides of the mouth with the tongue, feel whether the smell is just good, and feel the characteristics of the taste (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty) and the balance of the wine. After several tastes, slowly lower your throat.
5. Aftertaste: that is to swallow the red wine contained in the mouth, feel the aftertaste left in the mouth, the length and balance of the aftertaste, and integrate the smell and taste impression into the memory for aftertaste.