How to settle doubt concerning wine quality
Aroma – is everything for wine. True connoisseurs are going crazy with it, like fascinating novel «read» it sommelier and berhyme it. What lies behind the notes of wine symphony? What of them are godlike, and what with alarm signals? Here are some rules, which help you to find out some mistakes.
«Wine with cork» - what does it mean in reality? Is wine spoilt if by opening cork has crumbled and pieces fall into bottle?
As a matter of fact some bits will not spoil the wine: they can be carefully taken out or be filtered through the strainer. Cork’s smack will appear if cork sits in a bottleneck – it caused by mold fungi. For beginners: if some of your guests make a wry face because of cork’s smell, ask him for a wineglass and inhale wine aroma. If you share guest’s opinion, dilute wine (1/3) with water (2/3), then «crock’s mistake» can be easily found out – you will feel strange smell immediately.
At the bottom of bottle or wineglass appear white crystals or in a good old wine you note dark sediment.
Neither is considered as wine mistake. Crystals say us about tartar. It is harmless and has no influence upon wine flavor. Quite often old red wines have sediment. It imparts bitter relish, therefore it is necessary to decant wine into carafe with a help of little sieve. In any case it is not a mistake: light carbonic acids in young white wines or brown tint in old red. There should not be any objections concerning such wine.
Wine smacks of glue, acetone or vinegar, or it simply shows its capricious character.
The smell of glue and acetone are usually related to fleeting acid, which can appear at any wine – of course in a little quantity. The sign of acid is barely perceptible smell of vinegar. Not all wine connoisseurs considered this smell unpleasant, some of them really like it. Peculiar aromas, which are typical for some sorts of wine, for example for overseas tasteless Sauvignon blanc, are not considered wine mistake.
Tags: aroma, cork, Sauvignon blanc
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