If
tasting many wines at one time, there is a specific order you should go in so
as not to fatigue your palate. Stylistically, taste white wine to red, dry to
sweet, low alcohol to high alcohol, unoaked to oaky and light-bodied to full-bodied.
Crossing over any of these boundaries can easily throw your palate right off
and render it useless. Surely you can conceive of how tasting a tannic red
wine, for instance, can totally numb your taste buds to something substantially
lighter like a Riesling, just because of tannins’ coating action. If you happen
to find yourself in this predicament and want to go back and taste a product
out of sync, as it were, look for some bubbly in the room. Bubbles have an
uncanny knack of cleaning the palate nicely. Happy tasting.
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