Good wine vs Bad wine

A Good Wine Is:

1. Clean and clear. It should smell and taste fresh, yummy and enticing.


2. Concentrated. Whether it's light and delicate or rich and full-bodied, it should sit pleasingly on your tongue.


3. Complex. Good wine has more than one flavour, to keep you interested to the last drop.


4. Balanced. No one element – fruit, alcohol, acid, oak – should stick out. They should be in harmony.


5. Able to linger. The flavour haunts the back of your throat, urging you to have another sip.

A Bad Wine Is:

1. Dirty and bland. It smells unpleasant or boring.


2. Thin and dilute. It hardly registers on your tongue.


3. Simple. Bad wine has only one rather weak flavour.


4. Unbalanced. Bad wine is overly sharp, or woody, or has alcohol burn.


5. Short-lived. The taste disappears at the back of your throat and leaves you feeling short-changed.

*Tips: Once Opened, Wine Lasts …

1-2 DAYS for light white and red wines such as Riesling and pinot noir; sparkling and pink wines

3-4 DAYS for fuller-bodied reds and whites such as Shiraz and chardonnay; sweet white wines

1-2 WEEKS for pale dry sherry and vintage port

3 MONTHS for tawny port, Muscat, Tokay and sweet sherry.