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Smell… Have you ever stood in a room and watched everyone burying their noses into the glass with really intense looks on their faces? Then you tried to take a sniff too - just to seem like you knew what you were doing. And it just smelled like... uh... wine. Take a second and think about it. It might not hit you right away. You might sniff a few times before you pick up chocolate, for instance. You also have to let your brain process what you're smelling. For example, it's citrus. That you got right away. What kind of citrus is it? Lemon? Lime? Orange? Grapefruit? Definitely grapefruit, but with kind of an herbally thing to it, too. OK, so your wine has grapefruit and herbal aromas. Before you smell, swirl the wine in the glass. Swirling the wine opens it up by releasing molecules in the wine that help you smell it. If you're trying to get the hang of smelling a wine, start with an Australian Chardonnay. Aussie Chards often have powerful tropical fruit aromas. When you take a sniff, you'll really understand the idea of smell in your wines! Here's another reason to get that nose in there: to make sure the wine is still good. If the wine smells musty or like wet newspaper, it is probably corked. Corked wines have been tainted by a mold that gets into the cork and ruins the wine. |
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