If a wine is poured into the best wine glass, what should be your first step to take? You'll probably taste it. But as wine lovers always say, the tasting of a wine occurs before you actually taste the wine, when it is first poured into your glass. Before anything else, what you need to do is simply look at it. For you to get the sense of the wine color, you need to look at it. The wine color itself is already telling you a lot about the wine you will drink. Holding your glass of wine against a white background is what many people like to do because they easily see its color.

What is with the color of the wine? Why do you need to care about it? After the grapes have been juiced, you would see the color of a wine coming from grape skins contact and if the wine comes in contact with those skins for longer period of time, the more colorful the wine would be because those skins will convey their color. If you just merely skinned the grapes and juiced them and you did not let them come in contact with their skins, you would see no color at all in your wine, especially if you pour it out into the best wine glass. Grape skins are said to have a lot of their own characteristics, the longer they are in contact with the wine, the more they impart their own characteristics. It is just like an orange zest that has purer orange flavor or an apple skin that has more fiber than its meat.

There is also an ingredient that can help in making wine into lighter or darker colors; the oak. Those drinkers who avoid oaky white wines can have an understanding about wine colors, especially for white wines.

Take a closer look at the white wine. You will notice two usual differences: white wines that have not been aged in oak barrel and white wines that were aged. If you need samples of these types of wines, you can visit online and click here and there.

Proceed to know now how you can identify the difference of wines through their colors. The first thing to look at is the shade of yellow, whether it is very light and bright or it is yellow deep and full. You need to know if the light and bright color is approaching clear or the deep and full yellow is almost approaching the color of straw. The ones that have minimal contact with the grape skins are usually crisp and refreshing, they are of course light and bright in color. If you observe this type of wine, you know that it was not aged in oak barrel. Now, to see a good sign that a wine was aged in oak barrel, pour it out into a wine glass. If you found here , in this glass the darker and deeper yellow color, you will know that it was aged in oak barrel.