Harvest Your Taste Buds- Wine Tasting’s Best Tool

(Newswire.net—June 18, 2013)  Tampa, FL—Our taste buds are sectioned off on the tongue and each has its own unique qualities and areas of taste that allow us to differentiate and savor the different tastes.  All of the sensations that come into play are vitally important. 

Wine connoisseurs respect two of their senses more than any others and that is their sense of smell and taste.  The olfactory glands are our smell tools that coincide with our taste buds.  If one ever held their nose and bit into an apple, one could not decipher the difference between an apple and an onion.  For wine tasting, the sense of smell is the first sensation that we experience other than of course our visual identification of the wine’s colors and depth. 

The taste buds are comprised of papillae, which are tiny bumps that contain the taste buds themselves.  The average person has about 10,000 taste buds that are replenished every two weeks.  The taste buds have very sensitive hairs that are called microvilli, which are the sensory mechanisms that send messages to our brain identifying the sense of salty, sweet, bitter, or sour. 

The first encounter with that glass of wine is to breathe and inhale the aroma and almost place your face into the bouquet of the wine glass.  Then it is customary to inhale as much of the aroma as possible and allow the smell to work which then leads to the taste.  Wine is then sipped slowly and placed on the tongue where it can sit like a pool of water and slowly dissipate as it is absorbed into the various tongue cells and of course swallowed. 

The wine experts often times surround their wine guests with flowers that can give off different fragrances in a room which stimulate the senses before they are challenged by the different wine flavors.  It is the tongue and all of its complex components that enable the explosive flavors that can be highly complex or simply simple in our tasting process.

For more information regarding the taste buds and especially the tasting process of wines, contact Time For Wine at (813) 664-1480  www.timeforwine.net   5462 56th Commerce Park Boulevard,   Tampa, FL 33610  timeforwine@tampabay.rr.com