As you continue tasting, note how the wine pairs with the Duplin Gourmet crackers and Muscadine Pineapple Habenero dip. This is the point when you taste and feel the wine's finish. Savor: As you continue sipping, note how the sensation is slightly different from what you experienced when the wine was resting in your mouth on the first sip. Compare your experience to the wine's description and see if it matches. Light as water or heavier, like the texture of sweet iced tea? If you're sampling a sparkling wine, do the bubbles feel fine or medium in size. Compare the texture of different wines, how they feel in your mouth. Before swallowing, purse your lips and breathe in gently, allowing the air to travel across the wine in your mouth to get the full flavor profile.ĭo the flavors you're experiencing match the wine's nose? When and where are you tasting those flavors? Are you getting, say, banana bread on the first sip and then astringency or acidity at the end, which is called "the finish." Where do flavors hit you? On the tongue? On the side of your mouth. Wine releases more flavors as it warms on your taste buds. Let the wine coat the tongue and the inside of your mouth. Sip: Take a sip slightly larger than normal and hold the wine in your mouth for 3-5 seconds. Is it fruity? What kind of fruit? Berries? Ripe banana? Musky honeydew melon? Pure grape? Are you getting floral notes like honeysuckle or gardenia? See if you pick up unexpected smells like pine or fall leaves. Sniff: After you swirl, really dip your nose into the glass and inhale the aroma, which wine pros call the "bouquet" or "nose." Pausing to experience the bouquet heightens your senses and anticipation of the first sip. They're called "legs." Sweeter wines will leave streaks to cling or move slowly. You're looking for the viscous streaks running down the side of the glass after you swirl. Swirl the wine in your glass to determine if it is light or heavy. See if you can guess the grape and flavor before you sip. A bright, saturated hue often means a more intense flavor. Is it Scuppernong? Nobel? Carlos? Another? Color also indicates flavor. It will allude to the variety of grapes used and what the wine will taste like. See: First, hold a glass of wine up to a light and look at the color. Use this 5-step system for each wine on the tasting sheet included in your kit. With 13 items in the Be Bougie box, you could easily repackage it as a wine advent box with a bonus gift. The bundle also makes a so-tinsel gift for sweet wine lovers. Make it a formal or casual wine-tasting party with the tasting sheet included in the package or by following along with the video above. The Be Bougie combination is all you need to throw a party for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa or New Year's Eve. We also popped in a bag of crispy cheese straws. Use berry yummy Jolly Juice Sweetzer to whip up the perfect holiday wine slushie in your blender.įor nibbles, we've added Duplin Gourmet Christmas Wine Jelly, delightful on cheese boards or for making our popular Christmas Wine Jelly Brie Bites. Muscadine Cider and Jingle Spice spiced wine mix are here for stirring up warm spiced wine. Christmas Wine red and Naughty & Nice white, both sporting new label designs, are included as well as seasonal, cozy spiced Pum'kin red.Įlegant Midnight Magnolia, traditional Mothervine, both whites, and fizzy Sweet Rosé round out the classy wine list. You get new Peppermint Cotton Candy blush, bursting with frostily refreshing sweetness, and ulta-preminum Queen Anne's Revenge red, bold and full-bodied with a bite. The 2022 Be Bougie holiday bundle is packed with eight of our preminum wines, one alcohol free cider, fixings for spiced wine, everything you need to make festive wine slushies and two delectable Duplin Gourmet nibbles. That's why we put the best and newest Duplin wines all into one sweet package that you can tie up with a bow, share at a party with friends or turn into your own advent wine box with an extra bonus item.
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