How to Drink White Wine
White wines are made from lighter colored grapes, the skins of which are removed during the winemaking process. Compared to red grapes, white wines contain fewer tannins and aromatic substances in the skins. Due to the lack of tannin protection, white wines cannot be stored as red wines and have a lighter, more delicate flavor. So, do you know the right way to drink white wine? Let’s take a look.
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Wine Temperature
White wine tastes astringent when it is chilled. Traditionally, the temperature for drinking white wine is cool room temperature, between 18 and 21 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, white wines of all vintages are at their best. A chilled white wine has more tannin characteristics than a white wine at room temperature, so it tastes more astringent.
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Decant Point
White wines only have aromas when they are fully oxidized. A good bottle of wine is usually dusty for many years. When it is first opened, it will have a strange smell. At this point, it is necessary to “decant” the wine. After pouring the wine into a fine wine decanting vessel and waiting ten minutes, the odor will disappear. Decant usually require maximum contact between the wine and the air. When the white wine is fully oxidized, the richness of the wine’s aromas will slowly emerge.
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Wine Appreciation
Aged wines are brown around the edges. When pouring white wine, the basic wine requirement is that the glass is level and the wine does not spill. When there is sufficient light, place the glass horizontally on white paper and observe the rim of the wine to determine the age of the wine. Most wines that are clearly layered are new wines. A wine with a uniform color is an aged wine, with a slightly brownish tint, a bottle of aged wine.
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Drinking
Let it sit in your mouth for a while. Smell the wine deeply in the glass before drinking it. This will give us an idea of the aroma of the white wine, and then swallow a sip of the wine. We should let the wine stay in our mouth for a while, rolling it twice on our tongue, so that our senses can fully experience it. Finally, swallow it all the way down, and a light aroma will immediately linger.
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Taste the new wine first, then the old wine. For comparison purposes, it is common to taste more than two or three glasses of white wine at a wine tasting. Drinking should follow the principle of “first new, then old, first light, then strong”.
Have you learned anything today? Try the white grapes at home, there is a correct way to drink them!
