Sunday, June 5, 2016

Tiny Bubbles

Wine can truly be called "phenomenal"!  While most of us know this simply by enjoying a nice glass of wine, the fact is that we are made aware of just how delicious that wine is by the phenolic experience it provides.

Well, that's a mouth full (pun intended).  In a word, the grape contains many flavor compounds that our noses can sense.  It is these chemical compounds known as phenols that create the magic in wine.

As most of these chemicals exist in the skin (up to 300 different compounds) it follows that red wine contains more "flavor" than white wines that are not fermented with the skins. 

These "tiny bubbles" are what we smell when we swirl and sniff our wine, and why the use of our nose is paramount in the enjoyment of wine.

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