To choose a good wine, it makes tastings successfully used to assess the characteristics of each wine are made. Until recently few years, the world of wine tasting was exclusively for professionals. However, nowadays the wine tasting has approached to the individuals who want to know the hidden details of a good wine.

In wine tasting is used taste, smell and sight. There ways that we should learn to strengthen to differentiate the multiples hades of wine. With a little practice, for example, it can differentiate the wines of designation of origin Rioja against the wines of designation of origin Ribera del Duero.

The perfect place for a tasting wine should be well illuminated and ventilated. The environment must be free of odors and be at media temperature. Therefore, the winery is the ideal space.

Each wine should be served at the right temperature in a transparent and colorless glass. Whites, as designation of origin Rueda, should be served between 6 ° C and 9 ° C, the barrel and the pink wine at maximum of 13ºC and the aging and reserves wine between 16ºC and 18ºC.

The professional wine tastings, where the quality of the grapes is analyzed, scent, persistence, and other factors with which the wine is scored, can be of two types: vertical or horizontal.

THE VERTICAL WINE TASTING

The vertical wine tasting involves making a wine tasting session with same characteristics but different crops. For example, a tasting of wines from designation of origin Priorat, of the same winery but from different crop would be a vertical wine tasting.

Its purpose is to check the quality of conservation and evolution of the wines. They are holding councils designation of origin and the wineries, and are often supplemented by chemical controls.

THE HORIZONTAL WINE TASTING

In the horizontal wine tastings, it tested from the same crop and the same designation of origin to compare the quality of the grapes and making wine.

Thus the regulatory boards of designations of origin ensure that the bottles sold of each region have mandatory features of quality and the wines will be representatives of territory.