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Wine acidity is one of the most important elements to give life and nerve to the palate. If you still have trouble identifying it when tasting your wines, this article will help you discover it. As with any food or beverage, wine stimulates our senses, especially taste and smell. Acidity, precisely, is one of the basic flavors that can be appreciated in the palate and tongue thanks to the taste buds in the same way as salinity, sweetness and bitterness. However, acidity translates into the freshness of the wine as its presence stimulates the taste buds to secrete more saliva and thus refresh the palate. But how to notice if one wine is more acidic or fresh than another. The first exercise we can practice is to mix water with fresh citrus juice such as lemon or lime to identify the reaction that these stimuli generate on the palate. The ideal is to prepare several samples with different amounts of citrus juice to notice the different levels that the palate can tolerate. However, t...

It is estimated that grapes represent up to 70% of the quality of a wine, compared to the production technique. The wine growers are aware of this. Good wine is made in the vineyard and largely on the proper ripening of the grapes. In the maturation of the bunch, a considerable number of factors will influence the characteristics of the harvest and, ultimately, that of the wine produced. On one hand, these factors will fundamentally affect the quantity harvested. On the other hand, they will affect the quality of the grapes harvested, a question that is very difficult to determine, but which can be approximated by the varietal typicity or by a higher concentration of compounds in the grape. In other cases, they will also affect the expression of "terroir" in the elaborated wines. Usually it is often said that, in a general way, quantity is opposed to quality, that is to say abundant harvests, of high yields, tend to offer less concentrated wines.   H...