Wine must meet a number of standards to determine whether it is good or not.
Being at a dinner party and recognizing that good wine is placed on the table for many is a matter of professionals. But it could be simpler than you can imagine.
The idea is not at all to take out of context that the people in charge of tasting the wines and determining their quality, flavors, nuances, and sensations are the tasters.
But above the technical elements that a wine taster must-have, we all have the palate to choose a good wine, even if you have different opinions among all.
Experts say that good wine is, above all, a wine that we like, even if the best expert on the planet says otherwise, Vinetur said.
If we totally dislike a wine, no one can say otherwise, even if it receives the highest score in the best wine guide in the world.
Beyond this, the quality of a wine depends on a series of patterns that answer to what extent they meet a series of established conditions and that most consumer palates consider positive.
According to Vinetur magazine, these are the five quality standards to recognize a good wine:
Balance.
It is the relationship between four essential elements of wine: sweetness, acidity, tannin and alcohol.
A wine is balanced when none of them predominates over another, that is, nothing stands out when tasting it, neither an aggressive tannin, nor an inadequate sweetness, nor an exaggerated acidity, nor an excessive alcoholic predominance.
To know if any element is out of tune, the ideal is to accompany the wine with food.
In wine there is a play of force: tannin and acidity are hardening elements, they make the wine harder in the mouth, while alcohol and sugar are softening elements.
The balance in all those elements gives you a key indicator of its quality.
Longitude
A wine of good length, or long, is the one that imprints all its flavor on the tongue and oral cavity, is intense, and its flavor lasts after having swallowed it.
A short wine is one that makes a great impression at the beginning but quickly loses intensity.
Depth
We say that a wine has depth when it is not flat in the mouth and one-dimensional on the palate but, instead, seems to have layers of flavor. A flat wine can never be a great wine.
A flat wine represents, graphically, the wine that “tastes like nothing”, which reminds us more of drinking water than drinking wine. If the balance is the relationship between the main elements of wine, depth is its presence.
Complexity
There is nothing wrong with a correct, simple, and direct wine. But a wine that later continues to reveal different things about itself will be much more interesting.
A complex wine continues to always discover a new impression or a new flavor for each drink, and these wines are considered of better quality.
Character
A wine with character is one, which, like people, reflects a personal characteristic, usually from the terroir.
A wine with character reflects its marked typicity for its grape varieties, for its regions, for its aromas, for its minerality.
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