Tannin: vin48 Cork Dork
Tannin
Technically, a quality of a wine that comes from the skins, seeds and stems of the grapes as well as barrel aging. Tannin will give wine its firm structure, in addition to acting as a preservative, making a wine more age worthy. In real terms, tannin is felt more then tasted. It’s the quality in wine that dries out your mouth and curls your lips up around your gums. To really test the tannin in a wine, try swishing the wine up under your gums and see how much your lips stick to your gums. If you’re having a hard time pulling them back down over your teeth the tannin is medium to high. If it’s pretty easy to wrap those lips back around you teeth then the tannin is lower. At this point you can assess the tannins as low, medium or high. Nebbiolo grapes tend to be higher in tannin, while Pinot Nior tends to be lower in tannin. Come have a few half glasses of wine with your friends and practice assessing tannin in wine.
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