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About sommelier skills and wine volume

Wine tasters

It is understood that each national wine tasting session is hosted by a well-known national wine tasting experts, and the whole tasting session is also very strict, the need to make up whisky tasting the examination of "students" is also quite a lot.

"In the wine tasting examination, each environment is very important." Huang Yiming introduced, "the wine tasting environment is generally clean and tidy, no strange smell, fresh air, sufficient light, keep a constant temperature of about 15 to 20 degrees Celsius. To ensure accurate tasting results, wine tasting samples are usually placed in the same room 24 hours before the tasting, so that the temperature of the wine samples in each round is consistent, so as not to affect the results of the tasting. For the wine tasters, there are strict rules, such as no smoking half an hour before the wine tasting; no stimulating food during the wine tasting; and no drinking during the wine tasting and during breaks."

The examination is generally divided into two time slots in the morning and afternoon, the general order of wine tasting: first look at the color, then smell and taste, and finally make a record. Huang Yiming said, the entire examination process is not complicated, but also requires certain skills, which is mainly in the fast, accurate, "a little inattentive" will affect the results of the entire tasting.

For the wine tasting skills, Huang Yiming said, sniffing, first by number operation again, and then reverse the order of operation, and so on several times, to select the best and the most inferior, and then will not be comparable for repeated comparisons, while sniffing records, and constantly adjust the correction. When the smell is over, take a short break and start tasting again. Taste, first from the aroma of light to start, from light and thick repeated several times, the violent incense and aroma of the last taste, so as not to interfere with the oral cavity, and finally check the aftertaste can be finalized.

Wine volume

As a result of the daily tasting of a variety of wine, energy requirements are relatively concentrated, which will have certain requirements for the taster's own "wine" and physical condition. Huang Yiming said with a smile: "Wine tasters need a certain amount of wine is certain, but, in the wine tasting, wine tasters can generally master certain skills, such as wine tasting and then spit out, rinse your mouth to rest a while and then continue to taste, so as not to let the nerves of the tongue paralysis. However, there are wine tasters appear 'drunk' phenomenon, a few rounds down, is already scarlet, unstable, forced to give up the test." It is understood that to reach the level of top tasters, it takes a fairly long process, but for the entire wine market, the emergence of wine tasters, no doubt also responds to the needs of the market.

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