1. Order wine first
If you know something about wine, you can tell your favorite variety and origin, and then the sommelier will recommend it. If you don't understand, let the sommelier recommend it, and expensive ones may not be suitable.
2. Open a bottle
Generally, sommeliers in places where western food is eaten are very professional. If the stopper is broken, you can choose to change it. This is your right.
3. Shake the cup
Pour a little wine into the cup and shake it a few times, not too violently.
4, wine tasting
The first step is to look at the wine body, which is clear and free of suspended matter, otherwise it may be the dregs of cork or other sundries. However, the precipitate is not necessarily a bad thing. It may be the tartaric acid precipitate precipitated by different brewing techniques. Of course, it is also possible to ask for a wine change.
The second step is color. The color of red wine is very subtle, usually ruby red, which may be slightly blue or purple. Pomegranate red and crimson are normal, but brown red is unacceptable. This is an over-oxidized color. This bottle of red wine is dead. The same is true of white wine if it is brownish yellow.
the third step is to smell the aroma, and the combination of wine aroma is even more different. Here, I suggest you give priority to your personal feelings and ignore those complicated professional descriptions. However, there is a certain bottom line, and the aroma of jam or rotten fruit is unacceptable, which is also a sign of excessive oxidation. In addition, if you find the smell of wet rags or paper, then the wine is polluted by cork. Please don't accept such wine.
The fourth step is wine tasting. After the above inspection, it is basically guaranteed that you can taste a bottle of drinkable and normal wine. However, if you find that the taste of white wine is thick and not fresh, and red wine tastes of vinegar, you should not hesitate to return this bottle of over-oxidized wine.
5, sober up
If you are satisfied with the wine left after drinking, you can pour it into glassware to sober up. When wine leaves the original packaging environment, subtle changes will take place and the taste will be improved.
It's not difficult to master these things. You can often practice them at home. The taste of Tongtian Mountain wine bought by my wife a few days ago only found that mountain wine is also quite powerful.