Is the wine color identify the taste?

Question

Is the wine color identify the taste, which mean all the red wines are sour wine, and all the white wines are sweet wine, and the pink is in between.

Answer 1

Blind tasting of wine involves tasting and evaluating wines without any knowledge of their identities. This is done because knowing the identity of a wine easily prejudices tasters for or against it because of its geographic origin, price, reputation, or other considerations.

Scientific research has long demonstrated the power of suggestion in perception as well as the strong effects of expectancies. For example, people expect more expensive wine to have more desirable characteristics than less expensive wine. When given wine that they are falsely told is expensive they virtually always report it as tasting better than the very same wine when they are told that it is inexpensive. French researcher Frederic Brochet "submitted a mid-range Bordeaux in two different bottles, one labeled as a cheap table wine, the other bearing a grand cru etiquette" and obtained predictable results. Tasters described the supposed grand cru as "woody, complex, and round" and the supposed cheap wine as "short, light, and faulty." Blind tastings have repeatedly demonstrated that price is not highly correlated with the evaluations made by most people who taste wine.

Similarly, people have expectations about wines because of their geographic origin, producer, vintage, color, and many other factors. For example, when Brochet served a white wine he received all the usual descriptions: "fresh, dry, honeyed, lively." Later he served the same wine dyed red and received the usual red terms: "intense, spicy, supple, deep."

The world of wine has numerous myths and exaggerations that are only now being disproven scientifically, yet they influence perceptions and expectancies. Not even professional tasters are immune to the strong effects of expectancies. Therefore, the need for blind tasting continues

Answer 2

You don't need to know anything, really. Don't worry about swirling it and looking for color or legs (alcohol) - that's stuff people need to know for blind tastings which I doubt this is. And if it is - forget it - just drink and enjoy. But you do want to swirl the wine in the glass to aerate it and heighten the aromas. Immediately after swirling - stick your nose in the glass - I mean IN the glass - no delicate little sniff. This is where you would describe what you are smelling - so try to think of what it smells like. There are no wrong answers. Then sip. Ideally you want to swoosh the wine around your mouth a bit. And then you can describe the taste and the mouthfeel - was it light or watery or was it dense, etc. If there are a lot of wines being tasted, just drink a small amount or if there is a spit bucket or cup - you might consider spitting. If you drink a lot, after a few tastings, you'll be getting drunk and find differentiating wines to be difficult.

Answer 3

The color of the wine is created by the skin of the grape used in the process. If a vintner removes the skin of a red or purple grape the wine will be more white than red if the skin is retained the wine will be red or rose. The taste of the wine depends on the grape used - a Pinot grape would produce both Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gri - one white and one red. The same goes for the other types of grape used.

Answer 4

The color of the wine is solely dependent on whether or not it came in contact with the skin of the grape. Has nothing to do with how a wine tastes.

FYI to poster above. Pinot Grigio and Pinot Gri are the same thing. Pinot Noir would be the red wine Pinot Gris/Pinot Grigio are both white. Noir means black and gris/grigio means grey.

Your sense of smelll is a a far better judgement about the taste of a wine than what color it is.

Answer 5

The color of wine is one of the most easily recognizable characteristics of wines. Color is also an element in wine tasting since heavy wines generally have a deeper color. The accessory traditionally used to judge the wine color was the tastevin, a shallow cup allowing one to see the color of the liquid in the dim light of a cellar. The color is an element in the classification of wines.

Answer 6

Not at all. You'd have a better idea of how the wine will taste by smelling it.