Tasting is the art of knowing how to discover a wine using your senses. What are the differences between logging or chewing wine ? Discover more with Beaux-Vins !
Those who follow me on Facebook - what, you don't follow me yet, but what are you waiting for ? - know it, I had the chance to meet Emmanuel Delmas on the occasion of the release of his latest book "Wine tasting lessons". During this meeting, we tasted some wine he had brought. Seeing me do, Emmanuel Delmas told me "Aaah… you are one of those people who grind wine? "
What is growing wine ?
In each of the training courses I have taken to learn how to taste wine, I have always heard that it should be "log" and in my turn I systematically transmitted this concept to people who asked me to explain how to taste wine.
The goal is to breathe some fresh air into your sip of wine. This allows it to come into contact with air to reveal the aromas as much as possible. For it, all you need to do is put a little wine in your mouth and inhale to circulate the air between the wine and your puck. Be careful not to drool all over the place or suffocate when swallowing askew. I recommend you, before growing wine, to do it with water to train yourself. Bringing the wine into contact with air allows it to be smelled inside the nose. This is called retro-olfaction.
What is chewing wine?
The method is much simpler, just do as for a mouthwash. Rather than putting the wine in contact with air, chewing it brings it into contact with saliva and spreads it all over the tongue. Just put some wine in your mouth and breathe through your nose, closed mouth.
This method makes it possible to perceive the aromas, the acidity and its depth more intensely, and has the advantage of being much less noisy. This technique is ideal for analyzing the aromatic persistence in the mouth.. On the other hand, it takes a little longer - we log for a few seconds while we chew for about ten seconds —.
Tasting : Which technique to choose ?
I invite you to test both methods on the same wine to form your own opinion, but 9 people on 10 prefer to chew wine. Having done the test myself, I tend to combine the two methods. By habit, I start by growing and then chewing the wine in one sip or two. During a trade fair, I content myself with logging to avoid saturating my palate and to save a little time at each tasting. The taste buds have a fairly short capacity for analysis and need to be rested.
Chewing is much more natural. When you eat a food, you just have to chew it to enjoy it. No one is going to have fun putting air through their mouths to feel it properly. So it's been years and years that you have trained to taste this way so why switch to wine? ? The method of tasting spirits also emphasizes the lamb's lettuce so as not to "suffer" the alcoholic power. It should be the same for wine.
And you, what are you doing ? Which method do you prefer ? Let me know in the comments !
Jean-Nicolas Mouretin
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- How to conclude a wine tasting ?
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