Wine Tasting Kit is Creative Wine Gift
Wine tours are so popular to wine enthusiasts mainly for the chance to taste a wide variety of wines. This accounts for the rise of wine tasting parties that are being given all over the place. To give the wine lover on your gift list this experience in the comfort of his own home, try giving a wine tasting kit as a gift.
Wine tasting kits are a fun way to help the novice wine enthusiast experience many different wines and to learn the qualities of each wine. Different wine tasting kits are found depending on what types of wine you want to taste. There are differences between red wine tasting kits and white wine tasting kits They come with all the wine bottles and accessories needed.
You can even get kits that are made for multiple tasters. These wine tasting kits come with as many as eight glasses so that the experience can be shared. This kit would be a great base to throwing a wine tasting party in your area.
Wine tasting is an art and much more complicated than simply drinking a glass of wine. You will incorporate the senses of sight and smell, along with your sense of taste. This is not an experience to be rushed. You must savor and linger over each sip.
To properly use the wine tasting kit, there are some basics that you should be aware of. First of all, the wine glass should be clear with a rim that is turned slightly inward. This will allow you to see the color and clarity of the wine. The special rim is designed to concentrate the aroma and bouquet of the wine and prevent it from spilling when it is swirled.
Holding the bowl of the wine glass can allow the heat of your hand to warm the wine so you should always hold the stem of the glass to experience the truest flavors. You would start with a small amount of wine, no more than about an inch in the bowl.
If you are tasting several wines during the evening, you will want to start with the lightest wines and work your way to the more complex wines. This will ensure that your taste buds remain sensitive to all the delicate nuances of each wine. Expert consensus is to have a sip of water between tastings to cleanse the palate, leaving a clean slate for the next wine.
I'm sure you've seen experts swirling their glasses by their noses and looking mysterious. There are good reasons for this behavior. When the wine is held up to the light you can see the color and clarity of the wine. White and red wines both have color variations as they age and clarity is also desirable.
The mysterious swirling of the wine is not just to make the experts look wise. By swirling the wine gently for a few seconds, the wine becomes aerated. This releases all the fullness of the wine's bouquet. If a person has a sensitive enough nose, they will often be able to distinguish several of the individual elements of the wine.
Once you've done these first two steps, you can move on to the much anticipated tasting stage. Take a sip of the wine and swirl it around a bit in your mouth to warm it. Savor the multitude of flavors that explode on your tongue. If you plan on tasting several wines, it is perfectly acceptable wine tasting etiquette to spit the wine out instead of swallowing.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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Wine Tasting Journal - Unusual Wine Gift
It is easy to get stuck in a rut when giving a gift to a wine enthusiast. Of course, a nice bottle of wine is always appreciated but there can be problems for the gift giver. It's hard to know which wine another person will enjoy and appreciate. You also don't want to give the same type of gift as most other people will give. For an unusual wine gift, a wine tasting journal would be a lovely and useful idea.
A wine tasting journal is very useful, especially to new wine enthusiasts. A wine journal helps you to keep track of which wines you have tried and what they think of them. Many people will also make note of what foods they were eating with the wine and whether they paired well or not. By keeping records of these combinations, it will help you in selecting the perfect wine to go with any meal.
Often wine enthusiasts prefer a small journal that they can easily take with them in a pocket. This way they can record the names of wines that they taste at restaurants or while traveling. They can also record which foods were served and how they felt about the pairings. This allows the wine enthusiast to write their impressions as they feel them so they don't forget or leave out details later on.
How the person will use the wine tasting journal is personal to them. Some people merely make a note of the name and year of the wine along with the foods they were paired with. Other people will be more detailed and include their feelings and thoughts as they were drinking the wine. A wine journal can be as intimate and poetic as a diary to the wine enthusiast.
You can find wine tasting journals at various online stores and sometimes in your local wine shop. They can be quite plain or be very sophisticated with leather bindings and parchment pages. This will depend on what you plan on spending, as well as the tastes of the recipient. Obviously a leather bound journal will be higher priced than one that's covered with cardboard but it would be a very sophisticated option.
If you have a difficult time finding just the right wine tasting journal, you could always create one for that special person. You can find lovely bound notebooks at most bookstores that would work. As with purchasing wine tasting journals, there are a wide variety of plain journals available in all price ranges. You can personalize your gift by adding photos or artwork to the front. An elegant bookmark would add to this gift, as well.
Next time you are looking for a gift for a wine lover, think beyond the usual bottle of wine. A wine tasting journal will give the person many years of pleasure and usefulness. Every time they use their new journal to record or review their wine tasting experiences, they will remember the thoughtfulness of your gift.
It is easy to get stuck in a rut when giving a gift to a wine enthusiast. Of course, a nice bottle of wine is always appreciated but there can be problems for the gift giver. It's hard to know which wine another person will enjoy and appreciate. You also don't want to give the same type of gift as most other people will give. For an unusual wine gift, a wine tasting journal would be a lovely and useful idea.
A wine tasting journal is very useful, especially to new wine enthusiasts. A wine journal helps you to keep track of which wines you have tried and what they think of them. Many people will also make note of what foods they were eating with the wine and whether they paired well or not. By keeping records of these combinations, it will help you in selecting the perfect wine to go with any meal.
Often wine enthusiasts prefer a small journal that they can easily take with them in a pocket. This way they can record the names of wines that they taste at restaurants or while traveling. They can also record which foods were served and how they felt about the pairings. This allows the wine enthusiast to write their impressions as they feel them so they don't forget or leave out details later on.
How the person will use the wine tasting journal is personal to them. Some people merely make a note of the name and year of the wine along with the foods they were paired with. Other people will be more detailed and include their feelings and thoughts as they were drinking the wine. A wine journal can be as intimate and poetic as a diary to the wine enthusiast.
You can find wine tasting journals at various online stores and sometimes in your local wine shop. They can be quite plain or be very sophisticated with leather bindings and parchment pages. This will depend on what you plan on spending, as well as the tastes of the recipient. Obviously a leather bound journal will be higher priced than one that's covered with cardboard but it would be a very sophisticated option.
If you have a difficult time finding just the right wine tasting journal, you could always create one for that special person. You can find lovely bound notebooks at most bookstores that would work. As with purchasing wine tasting journals, there are a wide variety of plain journals available in all price ranges. You can personalize your gift by adding photos or artwork to the front. An elegant bookmark would add to this gift, as well.
Next time you are looking for a gift for a wine lover, think beyond the usual bottle of wine. A wine tasting journal will give the person many years of pleasure and usefulness. Every time they use their new journal to record or review their wine tasting experiences, they will remember the thoughtfulness of your gift.
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