Your guide to the art of wine tasting, Using the glossary, Setup – EXCALIBUR 415-06 Wine Master Deluxe Edition User Manual

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TEMPERATURE

. You’ll also get

information on the duration of
time a wine can be stored.

If you select

SERVING

from the

WINE BASiCS

menu, Wine master

Deluxe provides you with
information on the serving

TEMPERATURES

of wines. Wine

Master Deluxe also contains
information on

OPENING,

POURING, BREATHING

and

DECANTING

a wine, as well as on

choosing appropriate

GLASSWARE

and

ACCESSORIES

.

YOUR GUIDE TO THE ART
OF WINE TASTING

Wine Master Deluxe also helps
you learn the art of wine tasting.
Return to the starting menu and
select

WINE TASTING.

You can

then select either

AROMA

or

TEXTURE

. If you select

AROMA

,

you’ll see a list of common words
used to describe a wine’s aroma,
such as

FLORAL

. Then by

selecting

FLORAL

, for example,

you can read more specific
descriptive words, such as

ACACIA. GARDENIA, LAVENDER

,

etc.

If you choose

TEXTURE

from the

WINE TASTING

menu, a list of

common words used in
describing a wine’s texture

appear on the screen, such as

ACIDITY

or

COMPLEXITY

. By

selecting

ACIDITY

, for example,

you can read more specific
descriptive words, such as

METALLIC

,

PUCKERY

,

SHARP

,

SOUR, STEELY or TINGLE

. It

won’t be long before this
vocabulary becomes second
nature to you as you learn to
assess the wines you are drinking.

USING THE GLOSSARY

Still another helpful feature of
Wine Master Deluxe is the wine

GLOSSARY,

which can be selected

from the starting menu. Here you
can select from an alphabetical
list of words used to discuss wine
and quickly get a definition for a
word. (Remember to press

3X

or

ABC in order to scroll more
quickly.) Choose

BRUT

,

for

example, and the term will be
defined as follows

:

TERM FOR DRY
CHAMPAGNE OR
SPARKLING WINE.

SETUP

Selecting SETUP from the
starting menu lets you make
changes to the following:

COMPRESSED TEXT
SCROLL SPEED

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