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level questions: Level 1

Question	Answer
The clarity and the colour	Look
Brilliant - Bright - Clear - Dull - Hazy - Cloudy / Sediment? Crystals?	Clarity
dilute, v. pale straw, pale straw, medium straw, yellow, lt. gold, medium gold, amber, tawny, adobe, brown	Colour (White wine)
light / medium / dark: garnet, ruby red, purplish-red, or combinations / tawny, brown edge, any rim variation?	Colour (Red wine)
The older is a wine (white or red), the closer to the brown will the colour be	Old colour
The first sniff, swirling, and the second sniff	Smell
Is the wine presentable? Fresh nose or aged-developed bouquet? OK to proceed? Any FAULTS? Corked, vinegary, oxidized / stale, stinky / eggy, sulfites	First sniff
Needs a good wine glass, makes the flavor easier to smell	Swirling
Fruity / floral / spicy / berry / ripeness-level: under ripe through jammy, raisiny / estery / herbaceous / vegetal / grassy / nutty / minerally. Also, think about intensity. Woody: fresh woody, vanilla, caramel, brown sugar, smoky-char,coconut	Second sniff
Find the basic tastes, the retro odours, and identify the mouthfeel (body), and measure the persistence	Taste
Sweetness, Acidity (sourness), Bitterness (think about balance)	Basic Tastes
Do the retro-nasal odours while on your palate confirm the ortho-nasal odors? Any new odours?	Retro-Odours
The wine's weight (lt. body, medium body, full body) Mouthfeel: smooth or rough, astringent? Hotness from alcohol?	Mouthfeel / Body
Short (under 30 sec), medium (up to a minute), or long finish (a few minutes)	Persistence
Did you like it? How much would you rank it (compare to other similar ones)	Feeling
Take your time. Be attentive	Two basic rules
Tasting without seeing the bottle, and without knowing the price	Blind tasting
The tears you see from the wine does not mean that the wine is good or bad	Tears
Don't wear a perfume, train to identify every flavor to train your nose	Tricks for smelling
Put a white background, a paper is good, and a reflection of sunlight would be the best	Tricks for looking
Spitting is recommended to stay fully lucid while tasting different wine	Spitting
It is the opposite of dry. If you eat a grape and you remove the skin you will find what sweet is. Be careful sweet doesn't mean fruity.	Sweet
The sourness of the wine. In white wine, it compensates for the sweet taste. It generates saliva in your mouth.	Acidity
The bitterness of the red wine, it comes from the skin. If you eat the skin only of a grape you will find this taste. It generates the dry taste.	Tannin
A wine is balanced if sweet, acidity, tannin, and alcohol are compensating each other	Balance
The way the wine is doing in your palate	Length
The layers of taste and aromas of the wine	Depth
A wine is complex if it has a good length and depth	Complexity
If the tastes are similar to the other ones of the same race	Typicality
If it tastes like a rotten fruit, like vinegar, chemical, oxide, burnt or cork	What is a bad wine
If you taste different wine, here is the recommended order: 1. Sparkling wine; 2. White wine, rosés; 3. Young red; 4. Strong white or sweet wine; 5. Strong red wine; 6. Fortified wine	Tasting order