I met with an uncle who's a connoisseur and had the honour to taste some of the finest Cognac in his collection.
- One can never be in too much of a hurry to enjoy the wonderful Cognac you just been poured. The best rule of thumb is to let the Cognac breathe at least a half-minute per year old. Thus for the XO I had, which was 20-years of age, breathed for a minimum of 10 mins prior to our tasting.
- A tulip glass must be used to get the full aroma do somersaulting in the glass.
- Great Cognac is sipped and not swallowed! So what he meant was, taste a few "drops" at a time, let it sit in the mouth for a good minute for flavours to engulf the whole of our palate and entice our oral cavity in totality.
- Hold up the tulip glass and take one or two shallow sniffs, don't enforce it with a big breath or else the 80% or so spirit will just anesthetize our entire olfactory and dumb our senses.
- Then try to make sense of what you got out from that momentarily wait. Was it fruity or flowery? Woody or spicy? Chalky or oaky?
I had no clue as you can guess, but the roof of my mouth and the back of my nasal sure had some fun crawling in a whole new world of wine tasting!
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I presume this is a bit like drinking whisky? I went for whisky-tasting once... ya, you hear me right...whisky-tasting... From Macallan. We tasted a series of 6-8 bottles, I was the only lady on the table of 10, and I didn't have my dinner 'cos I was held back at work... imagine my struggle to try to sample all while staying composed, haha... tell you more when we meet.
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