People often ask us whether you need to “know” to taste wine. You don’t. A wine is tasted with the eyes, the nose and the mouth, not with a dictionary. What you feel is right, even if you cannot name it.
These are the three gestures we make at the tasting table:
- Look — tilt the glass against a light background: the colour already tells you the wine’s age and the sun of its year.
- Smell — once without moving the glass, then again after swirling it: the wine opens up as it meets the air.
- Taste — a small sip, held in the mouth for a few seconds. Notice what remains once the wine is gone: with ours, it is often a salty note, the note of the pebbles.
« The best word to describe a wine is often your own. »
And take your time: a wine changes in the glass within ten minutes. That is what we do during the visit, with twelve wines poured by the glass, from the freshest to the deepest.