For those who like to drink wine, waking up is a common step to do before drinking wine. The purpose of waking up is mainly to get rid of the sediment in the old wine, and then to expose the young wine to more oxygen to speed up the oxidation and let the full aroma of the wine come out. However, most people wake up their wines with red wines, but does white wine need to be woken up? Under what circumstances does it need to be woken up?
1. The temperature of white wine is too low.The vast majority of white wines should be served below room temperature, so it is common to chill a white wine before drinking it. However, if it is over-chilled, it will be too cold for the aromas to be fully exploited. At this point, if it is poured into a wake-up vessel, its temperature can quickly rise.
2. The white wine is too hot.This seems to be the opposite of the first point, but the two are not contradictory. The wine bottle is a good insulating boundary that keeps the wine in the bottle isolated from its surroundings; at this point, if you want to change the temperature of the wine, you have to go through the bottle first. To get the wine to the desired temperature as quickly as possible, you can pour it into a wide wakeboard and then place the wakeboard in ice water. It is a good idea to put the wine in the ice water for 1-2 minutes before pouring it into the waker.
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3. White wines are more “closed”.
When white wines are served at the right temperature, they tend to have an attractive aroma. However, some white wines are “shy”, either because they are young or because of varietal characteristics. If you pour a white wine into a glass with little or no aroma, try to “wake” it up. Believe it or not, some experts even take Champagne for a wake-up call from time to time. For Champagne, the bubbles may be pretty, but it’s the aroma and flavor that counts.
4. The white wine will slowly develop more fascinating aromas when it comes into contact with oxygen, but you don’t have time to wait.Some white wines give off an enticing aroma as soon as they are poured into the glass, and they develop more and more special aromas if they are allowed to remain in the glass. For example, with Robert Mondavi’s Fumé Blanc Reserve, when first poured into the glass, you can feel the overwhelming aromas of white peaches, vanilla and oak; then slowly you can smell more subtle aromas such as white flowers, spices, sweet herbs and various fruits. When drinking a white wine like this, if you don’t have enough time to wait for it to fully “bloom” in the glass, you can “wake” it up before drinking to speed up its maturation.
5. White wines have an unpleasant odor.If a white wine has an unpleasant odor, it doesn’t mean it’s of questionable quality. Most young white wines have an unpleasant smell because of the sulfur dioxide in the wine. Extremely tight corks, such as screw corks, are completely airtight and gases such as sulfur dioxide in the bottle cannot escape at all, so you may also smell an unpleasant odor when opening the bottle. Pouring the wine into a wake-up call will allow those odors to escape easily.
6. Two bottles of the same white wine but displaying slight differences.Most people don’t encounter this problem, but if you are organizing a large professional tasting or wine training course with 2 or more bottles of each wine, you need to make sure that several bottles of the same wine are in the same condition. For 2 identical bottles, if one of them is lagging in development, you can pour both bottles into a large waker at the same time, blend them well, and let them meld together.
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