Increase your Wine Vocab Wine Tasting are fun, aren’t they?! But ask us and we’ll tell you that they can also be very tricky! Because wine tastings require you to think about the wine you are drinking and the flavours you are experiencing, as a novice it can be quite intimidating as one might find that they have run out of words to describe a wine. Picking notes in a wine is like giving it adjectives. It entails describing the fruit, herb, nuts, flower and other kind of aromas and flavours we sense in the wine. It is in fact a difficult skill to master, especially when you are just starting to explore the world of wine. The best thing one can do is to increase their wine vocabulary is to familiarise themselves with more words. Below are some words but do exercise discretion when using them. Relevance is key, otherwise one can come off sounding like a wine snob without the knowledge to back it.
A wine with intense aromas tremendous nose bold aromas (red wine) aromatic lift (white wine) brooding pungent
A wine with less intense aromas closed light soft delicate subtle A wine with a strong taste full-bodied extracted rich flamboyant persistent A wine with less strong or mild taste elegant mellow nuanced subdued airy A wine with a smooth taste supple velvety plush opulent rounded A wine with a bitter after taste chewy firm muscular tannic structured These words should be used judiciously and subjectively. Regards Wine Kart