Just One Look - The Colors of Wine

(Technorati) - Most people don’t realize that one can glean a great deal of information about a wine before one ever smells or tastes it…but it’s true. Once a wine has been poured into your glass, a visual observation of that vinous beverage can relate to you many things about what you’ll soon be imbibing if you keep in mind the information in this blog post. Clarity of a wine is the first visual consideration. Most “sound” still wines will be clear, in that they don’t have any haze or flocculation (things floating in the wine). However, there are sound still wines that can have a slight haze, these are wines that have been bottled unfiltered, and sometimes the fact that the wine is unfiltered will appear on the bottle’s label to remove any doubt. Wines that have considerable haze can often be relating to you that they contain a fault – wine casse, for instance, will display itself as a discoloration or turbidity in a wine that indicates high levels of copper or iron, though instances of this fault are extremely rare in the vast majority of commercial wines. Wine casse is only one of dozens of potential faults in a wine

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