Packing and the label - the business card of any goods and a product, including wine. Information which they bear and on which the buyer sometimes doesn't pay special attention can tell a lot of things of what is inside. So, for example, year of a harvest of grapes of which wine is made allows to draw preliminary conclusions on quality of the last and to reveal the available marriage.
Instruction
1. Being going to buy quality wine, pay attention that the instruction for a year of a harvest - the same necessary data as the name of wine and its manufacturer, endurance, category, etc. Usually year of a harvest appears on a label on a neck of a bottle and, complemented with an inscription on the ""natural wine"" label, is a guarantee that before you, actually, natural wine, but not prepared from concentrated powder.
2. Compare year of a harvest and a wine brand. Concerning endurance all wines are divided into young, without endurance, sustained (up to 1.5 years), branded (up to 3 years) and collection (with the big and very big, sometimes estimated by dozens and even hundreds of years endurance). Thus, the formula ""than is more senior wine, it is better for those"" works not always. For the majority of white wines the optimum term of endurance during which their properties reach the highest indicators - 2-3 years, red are stored from 2nd to 10 years. So if you wine and a difference between date of harvesting and in the afternoon more than three years buys, cope whether this grade is among collection. If yes, questions, of course, disappear if isn't present, then it is better to refuse such wine. The same with other categories - verify that to which your choice, with the instruction for a year of a harvest belongs.
3. Compare year and the place of a harvest. The quality of wine strongly depends on weather conditions in which grapes ripened. Taking into account weather in any given wine-making region unsuccessful, successful and outstanding, called also millesimes allocate years. In all countries which are engaged in winemaking are issued and the special cards of millesimes reflecting estimates of wines by this criterion are annually updated. Address for data a similar source for you special will be not difficult and will be very useful. Even high-grade and expensive wines in years, unsuccessful for grapes, are capable to disappoint with the properties.