What to notice in Wine All wines have aromas, flavours, textures. In order to make sense of wine it helps to break it down into its component parts and examine these methodically.
Every wine has size, personality, style and, perhaps most importantly, a function.
Our impression of a wine comes from observing how its aromas, textures and flavours behave from the moment it is poured into a glass, until the last drop trickles down our throats. Like bodies, some wines are blessed with balanced proportions, some are large in stature, and some smaller and more compact. Still others bank on exaggerating one feature at the expense of others. I always take a good whiff before every gulp. Wine aromas can be floral or fruity or vegetably or nutty or buttery or animally or minerally or smoky or an endless combination of smells from all sorts of other things.