Palate >>>    Tasting the wine will also tell you how sweet or dry it is and how much acidity and tannin is present. Acidity gives the wine the sharp taste, and tannin gives it a kind of “furry” feel. Your palate will tell if the wine is balanced, with all these components.     To experience all the attributes of a wine you must make sure that the wine is rolled all around the mouth and over the entire surface

of the tongue. A very small quantity of the wine will be swallowed. The rest of the wine is spit out.

   Expert tasters take in a little air with the wine, using their teeth to form a barrier as they suck air in through the gaps. This can be quite difficult at first, but it brings out the flavors in the wine.

   The flavors that remain in the mouth after you have spit out the wine, is known as the “finish”. A long finish is on where the flavors linger in the mouth for a minute or more. This is a sign of quality of a good wine, and as for a lesser wine, it will have a short finish or no finish at all.