WINE POETRY

Wine is one of the most important elements in gastronomy of the whole world. The oldest remains ever found are from 6.000 B.C. in Armenia, spreading fast around the western world with the Greek and Roman empires, to later be used as one of the main symbols in Christianity.

I must stress that, throughout history, wine has always been held in high regard in the western aristocracy, being a firm witness of many important events, and many historic treaties have been signed around it.

In order to taste a wine you must follow easy but essential steps:

- First of all, we must examine the cork, and see if it hasn’t rotten and contaminated the wine.

- Secondly you have to SEE the wine, so we will pour wine in a glass and hold it against a light and over a table with a white cloth, and we describe its color, transparency, bubble formation, rests of sediments...

- Afterwards we will proceed to smell it. for that we will shake the glass and bring our nose near the glass to perceive the aroma of the wine

- The last step is the tasting, where we will touch the wine with our lips and tip of the tongue first to search the sweetness, followed by drinking a small amount and rinsing the mouth with it to sense the acids and the volume of alcohol. Finally, the wine is swallowed and the aftertaste remains.

Now the linguistics comes at play, where adjectives fly connected with each other to make almost poetry, trying to express the beauty of the wine captured by all of your senses. A description of a rosé would be like this:

Pink color
with strawberry nuance,

Shiny and vibrant;

Strong aroma,

with hints of raspberry

and rose petals;

Light, fresh fruity taste and round,

easy to drink;

Overall voluptuous.

Wine tasting is more of an art than a science, and it must be perceived with all of your senses.

There is no need to be a professional in order to taste wine, but an untrained taster won’t be able to isolate the aromas and flavors that wine delight us with and an extended and specific vocabulary is needed to be able to describe it. It just takes practice.