What to observe in a glass of wine

1. What is the point 2 of the 5 points method?

2. What is the wheel of flavour?

3. Is the smell of wine made of many different flavours and aromas layered on top of each other?

4. Where do you start to read the wheel?

5. Where do primary aromas come from?

6. Secondary aromas?

7. Tertiary aromas?

8. When do tertiary aromas start to appear?

9. A simple wine will have very few aromas, correct?

10. A complex wine can have over 10 different aromas and flavours.

11. Beginners can miss out flavours or aromas

12. How to assess and qualify a wine as ‘complex’?

13. Can a young Bordeaux (less than 5 years old) have tertiary aromas?

14. The word ‘complex’ is used as positive attribute in the wine world

15. Out of how many points do I rate the complexity of the aromas?