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Types of Wines and Choosing Your Wine Confidently

Submitted by kukku on 27 February, 2008 - 14:20.

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Know Wine Types And Choosing

Red Wine

Red wine is made from red grapes or black grapes. The tannins from the skin of the grapes imparts wine its dark color during the fermentation process. In taste red wines range from smooth and velvety to the full-flavored intense and spicy. Try out mellower red in the beginning and work your way up to the more intense styles and blends as a part of enriching your wine tastes gradually.

Rosé Wine or Blush Wine

Rose wine, like red wine is also produced from red black or black grapes. But it is allowed contact with the grape skins only for a short period of time which gives the wine its characteristic hue of red color or the sweet pink tinge. This wine tastes more similar to a white wine.

Sparkling Wine

Sparkling wine is often mistaken for champagne. However, sparkling wine isn't produced from champagne grapes(which are grown in Champagne, France). To produce sparkling wines, winemakers add a yeast and sugar solution to dry table wine. Thereafter the wine is resealed to subject it to second fermentation process.

White Wine

Contrary to belief, white wine can be made from either red or white grapes. Unlike in the red wine, the skin of grapes is not used in the fermentation process. This is the reason why wine remains white or golden. White wine styles vary from very dry to super sweet and are typically served chilled.

Note While Choosing a Wine
Though there are many wine varieties they are variations of above basic categories of wine one way or the other.
Wine can be made from a variety of grapes or from a single type of grape. This alone is can change the taste of a wine.
When looking at names of wines, remember some wines, also known as varietals, are named after principal grape in their composition.
Wines are also named after the region in which the grapes were grown.
Climate of the region where the grapes were grown impact the dryness or sweetness of the wine.

While the grapes used in the wine will have a large impact on the taste of the wine, the winemaker can also influence its taste during the vinification or winemaking process.

Armed with complete knowledge of types of wines and types of wine glasses used to serve them, you are well on your way to be a wine connoisseur.