You’ll need a white background for this part. Focus in turn on hue, intensity and clarity. Each requires a different way of looking. The true color, or hue, of the wine is best judged by tilting the glass forward and looking at the wine through the rim. Intensity can best be gauged looking straight down through the wine from above. Clarity – whether the wine is brilliant or cloudy with particles – is the most evident when light is shining through the glass.

Color tells you a lot about the wine. For instance, as white wines age, they gain color. Red wines, on the other hand, lose color as they age. Here are the colors for both:

• White Wine: pale yellow-green, straw yellow, yellow-gold, gold, yellow-brown, maderized, brown
• Red Wine: purple, ruby, red, brick red, red-brown, brown

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