Video Transcript:

Bonjour and welcome to Art In A Glass. I’m Bob Perkins and today I thought we talk about how to taste wine. You know wine is Art and we should appreciate wine like we appreciate great art. And there is a bit of an art to tasting wine. The first thing we want to do is make sure we’re holding the glass by the stem. You don’t want to hold the glass like this or like this because your fingerprints will dirty the glass and you won’t be able to see the wine clearly and also your hands will warm the wine. The second thing we want to do is think about our senses our eyes, our nose, and our pallet about how we experience the wine. So the first thing is to look at the wine. We want to look at the color of the wine. We want to see the density of the wine. This is a beautiful wine from Bordeaux and it’s a deep dark purple and I can look at this wine and see that around the edge the clear line around the edge is very thin. That’s the viscosity and that edge means that this is a pretty dense wine and it is.

The second thing we want to do is we want to smell the wine. So I’m gonna swirl the wine a little bit in my glass to get the aroma into the top of the glass where I’m going to smell the wine. So I’m swirling and then smell the wine. It’s a beautiful wine. And the fragrances on it are amazing. I can already smell the dark fruit and the bit of terroir, the oak is there but not a lot. It’s a beautiful wine just by smelling it.

The next thing we’re doing is taste the wine. But before we taste the wine, I want you to do a little experiment with me. Now don’t worry this will be fine. First hold your nose like this and taste the wine. And then come back and taste the wine without holding your nose. You get an appreciation for how much you’re or factory glands contribute to you tasting the wine. To your enjoyment of the wine.

And the last thing of course is to taste the wine. I’m gonna taste the wine and I’m going to aerate the wine in my mouth. That means that I’m gonna take a little sip, I’m gonna open my lips just a little and breath air through my teeth across my palate with the wine and I would advise you not to try this with wine at first. Try with water because I’ve done a lot of tastings and inevitably there’s someone who has wine all the way down their shirt because they didn’t get this right the first time. So I’m gonna swirl my wine. I’m gonna smell my wine and then I’m gonna aerate it on my tongue. Mmm.. that is so good. The aerating on your tongue gives your full palette experience of the wine, and this is how to really appreciate great wine.

I hope this helps and I hope you enjoy your wine like you enjoy great art.

Thanks Sante!