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Wines
The process Of tasting wine can be broken down into evaluating five fundamentals of each wine: Color, Swirl, Smell, Taste, and Savor.
Color
Evaluating the color of wine is a good initial indication of it's age. To accomplish this, get a white background and hold the glass of wine in front of it. Take a look at the color and then make a comparison to a chart similar to the listing below. The range of colors that you may see depends, of course, on whether you're tasting a white or red wine. Here are the colors for both, beginning with the youngest wine and moving to an older wine:
Wine type Color range by age (Youngest to Oldest)
WHITE WINE pale yellow-green, straw yellow, yellow-gold, old gold, yellow-brown, maderized, brown
RED WINE purple, ruby, red, red brick, red-brown, brown
Color tells you a lot about the wine. There three main reasons why a wine may have more color:
1. It's older.
2. Different grape varieties give different color. (For example, Chardonnay usually gives off a deeper color than does Riesling.)
3. The wine was aged in wood.
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