In recent years, people are increasingly concerned about the wine tasting and rating grading, but unfortunately, most of the massive wine rating system are not standardized. So the best way to explore their own taste is in accordance with the basic characteristics of the wine will be a variety of wine classification, and then select a favorite one.

Five basic characteristics of wine

1. sweet 

The human senses the sweet part is located at the tip of the tongue. The wine is an entrance, sweet or not sweet. Therefore, to taste the sweetness of wine, you have to focus on the tongue of the taste buds. Did the taste buds feel numb? In fact, this is the sweet taste to you. Many dry wines in order to achieve the wine to give people a heavy effect, often with a small amount of residual sugar, that is, the source of sweet wine.

2. acid 

The acid in the food and drink is both fresh and active. The sourness of wine often gives a high degree of alcoholic illusion. Because the high acid wine to drink it makes people feel light, like sparkling wine, jumping on the tip of the tongue, but with a spicy taste, this feeling just like the high alcohol brought about by the feeling similar. In general, the cooler year of the wine produced a higher acidity. If you prefer some wine full of rounded wine, that high acid wine should not meet your taste.

3, tannin 

Tannin brings a sense of convergence or thirst is often mistaken for the residual sugar caused by the wine. In fact, tannins in wine are a kind of phenolic compounds, mainly derived from grape peels and grape seeds, or through the aging of oak barrels, often expressed as bitter taste of wine. This bitter taste as black tea, although full of herbal aroma, but bitter. Tannin's taste is not very good, but it is the existence of it gives the wine a good balance, complexity and structural level, but also extend the life of the wine.

4, fruit 

The wine will emit bursts of fruit. The fruit aroma can help you to better determine your preferences, and even distinguish the different grape varieties, origin of the wine. For example, strawberry wines and black wines are not brewed with the same grape varieties. The richness of the fruit in the wine is also a great relationship with the producing areas.

5, wine 

Wine can be divided into light, medium and mellow 3 kinds. The wine is a combination of multiple factors, grape varieties, origin, year, alcohol content and brewing process will have a significant impact on wine wine. It can be said that the wine is the overall performance of the wine collectively or wine gives the overall impression of a statement. In general, the sommelier can judge the wine according to the origin and the year of the wine. However, the impact of alcohol content on the wine is also very significant. Alcohol high wine viscosity is also high, which can be observed by hanging the length of the time to judge. High alcoholic wines generally have more heavy wine.