Why Do We Swirl Wine? and How-to?

[@odanehylton5955]

Thank you for this vdeo.... watched from Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@RealEstateDaisy]

Thank you Julien for your lovely videos!! I'm learning so much for my trip to France!!!

[@Ab888ab]

Can you share where you got your wine glass to the left?

[@YouTubeJulien]

It's a Spiegelau Burgundy Origin red wine glass. It was sent to me by the manufacturer!

[@danoopgamez615]

Hi, do you just swirl at the beginning or can you do it continuously as you drink it?

[@YouTubeJulien]

Hi Danoop. Sure, you can swirl your wine whenever you feel like it, even after tasting it. Whenever you feel like to need to smell the wine well. Sometimes after tasting you may start identifying something you had not perceived before and you're like 'what that smell/aroma?', then rather than taking another sip, you can just swirl the wine really well again and take a good sniff, and hunt for that smell to 'see' if you can put your finger on what it reminds you of. There's no hard rule in wine tasting but one (if you ask me!): enjoy yourself ;-)

[@Msladykingbar]

Ii suffered a closed head injury about 25 years ago. The part of my brain that was damaged affects my senses of taste and small :(. Would there be any point for me to swirl my wine for personal taste? As it is, I have to judge my wine by taste alone, and since that sense is also off, I may not be selecting the "best" wines -- I stick with what tastes good to me (it's a rather limited list). I do understand the point that doing this in public in front of the sommelier is a bit like knowing the correct pronunciation -- you are not immediately dismissed as a "tourist".

[@edvardkvist3656]

Good evening, good night or good morning depending on when, and where you are while you read this. Im sorry to hear about the impact your injury had on your life. Smelling and tasting is one of the joys we should really cherish in life. But I would advice you to swirl your wine as much as you like. Even if it wouldn't make and "acutal" difference in taste just keep swirling, swirling the wine gives a sense of tangibility while enjoying some wine with friends or family. And believing something makes a difference by the feel it produces gives a quite different experience. If a somelier gives a weird look, tell them a powerful story of your injury and how prolonged swirling helps. Get creative and get positive :) sorry for the english i am learning and trying new ways of expressing myself, greetings from Sweden.

[@bluremi08]

Can you swirl your wine too much and exhaust it, bringing all the aromas out? p.s. just came across your channel and this is amazing, so much practical information! liked the chardonnay series, hope there will be more about other common wines. thank you for your job and effort 🍇

[@YouTubeJulien]

thank you very much, glad you enjoy the videos, tx for taking the time to let me know. Feel free to spread the word about the series and the channel :-) Sure, planning on making similar series like the Chardonnay's about other grape varieties like Cabernet or Pinot. There will be videos about regions too, Bordeaux, Chianti and such. Now for exhausting the wine by swirling it? No. You won't evaporate all the aromas by swirling too much. I mean, maybe if you'd swirl it for half an hour or more non-stop perhaps the wine would start feeling it, too much oxygen and yes that would change the profile. But you can swirl it vigorously ten times or more and sniff, and the wine will still have plenty of aromas, no problems there.

[@typerightseesight]

once you start pouring to decanter. this is it!. lol!

[@jacobmoore3636]

I have been drinking wine wrong my whole life, maybe this is why i never really liked it