Is This the Same Wine?

Ever wonder why the first sip of a Red wine tastes incredibly smooth whereas a few seconds later, you taste the exact same wine again and it’s bitter, living this dry sensation at the back of your mouth?

It turns out we have saliva to thank for that. Proteins in saliva bind with tannins and precipitate out. The result of this is that saliva no longer has its lubricating qualities thereby leaving your tongue feeling dry. Red wines’ astringent taste comes from this.


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