Hey everyone!
I started my new job as a waiter and I don’t want to ask my colleagues all the time. So we have 19 types of wines (red, white and rose). However, the clients keep asking different things regarding our wines like “I want something not too dry” I get so confused, isn’t wine liquid? How could it be dry? How do I know when it’s a dry/fruity/sweet wine? Is there anything on the label to make it easier to identify?
I’d like to know the major differences between dry, sweet, body, etc. I was looking up on Google, but all articles sound way smarter than I can actually comprehend.
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If you can’t taste the wine to describe it, it can definitely be more tricky.
Varietal means the type of wine. Many times the type of grape. Similar to apples (granny Smith, McIntosh, Pink Lady, etc) there’s different varietals of grapes and they all taste different. (Chardonnay, sauvignon blanc, pinot noir, etc). Some wines will be a blend of these different grapes. These varietals grapes will have similar flavor profiles consistently, but depending on the type of soil, temperature, year, and where in the world they are grown the taste will differ.
The body of a wine is basically how dense it is. When it is light bodied it feels more like water in your mouth. Full bodied is heavier, like cream or milk.
The finish is the feeling or taste you get after the wine leaves your mouth. Some wine can have lingering flavors or feeling of dryness or sweetness.
A dry wine will feel not sweet. When it leaves your mouth you might want to sip water. An off-dry or sweet wine, will be just that. Sweet.
When you describe a wine it’s best to hit on these things. While some things can be subjective, generally the body, the level of dryness, and the finish are easy to describe.
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