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Wine Quote

 
“Who loves not wine, woman and song, remains a fool his whole life long.”
- Martin Luther 
We drink beer to party and champagne to celebrate, but we drink wine for the wine. It is an art form with its own vocabulary and rules of etiquette, ones every man should know whether he’s entertaining guests in his home or dining at a fine restaurant. Wine’s rich, extensive history goes back as many as 9,000 years in certain regions of China and has played a role in religious ceremonies dating back to ancient Greece and Rome and continuing on through Christian and Jewish traditions. Drinking wine in moderation has been shown to offer some positive health effects, including lowered risk of coronary heart disease (although some dispute this). Granted, wine appreciation is often associated with a level of pretentiousness, but it is a common search term chiefly because so many aspects of it are in fact rather complex and require the guidance and experience of experts. AskMen.com’s wealth of articles on wine, written by aficionados, provide that extraordinary service.

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How to be a Wine Connoisseur

Step 1) Hold the glass right! Either hold it by the stem, or what’s preferable is to hold it with two fingers under the base and your thumb on top of the base. Never hold it by the bowl section (oops!).

Step 2) Get a piece of white paper. Hold your wine glass against the paper to test the colour

Step 3) Tip your glass forwards and examine the ‘legs’ of the wine. These are the drops of wine that run down the glass – the thicker these are and the slower they run, the better quality the wine.

Step 4) Swirl the wine around in the glass – either in the air, holding the glass by the stem or put pressure on the base and swirl it around on the table.

Step 5) Choose your ‘good nostril’ (Haha yes apparently you have a good nostril!), and have a smell of the wine.

Step 6) Sip the wine. Don’t swallow it!!! Swish it around your mouth. If you can, rest it on your tongue and breathe in air over the top of it to release more flavour. Swallow. You should still have flavour all over your mouth, and if you don’t (for example if you can’t taste it at the front of your mouth), that’s known as a “hole in the palette” and the wine is not that great.

Step 7) Drink the rest, or tip it into the tasting jugs.

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Red Wine – Heart Health benefits?

Does red wine protect against heart disease? Maybe. Many studies investigated the benefits of red wine suggested that moderate amount of red wine (one drink a day for women and two drinks a day for men) lowers the risk of heart attack for people in middle age by ~ 30 to 50 percent. It is also suggested that alcohol such as red wine may prevent additional heart attacks if you have already suffered from one. Other studies also indicated that red wine can raise HDL cholesterol (the Good cholesterol) and prevent LDL cholesterol (the Bad cholesterol) from forming. Red wine may help prevent blood clots and reduce the blood vessel damage caused by fat deposits. Indeed, studies showed that people from the Mediterranean region who regularly drank red wine have lower risks of heart disease