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title: How To Taste Wine Like An Expert [VIDEO]
description: "Tasting wine includes 5 key components: color, nose, aroma, taste, and aftertaste. Haskell's Chairman and CEO Jack Farrell shows how to test them:"
image: https://blog.haskells.com/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-24%20at%201.56.20%20PM.png
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###### 12 min read

# How To Taste Wine Like An Expert \[VIDEO\]

By: [Ted Farrell](https://blog.haskells.com/author/ted-farrell) on  May 07, 2015

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## Quick Pours: Wine Tasting \[video\]

Tasting wine is a very simple procedure that seems more complicated than it looks. But if you do it right, you will not only look like an expert, you will enjoy the wine more, as well.

Wine tasting includes 5 key components: color, nose, aroma, taste, and aftertaste. Haskell's Chairman and CEO Jack Farrell shows how to test each of them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Quick Pours is a series of video blogs about [wine](http://www.haskells.com/WineList.aspx) and beer. If you enjoyed this video, check these out:

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- [How to Remove Red Wine Stains - Like Magic](https://blog.haskells.com/how-to-remove-red-wine-stains-like-magic)
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