Two myths about wine finally debunked

Debunking

Have you ever been told that the best wine is the old one, or that slower legs are a synonym of higher quality?

These are only a couple of the famous myths and beliefs around the wine industry. There’s no doubt in saying that for sure a certain rhetoric, particularly diffused among wine specialists, has contributed to shape the language of wine in an arcane and undisclosed world. Nevertheless, the constant fascination for this tradition has increased the diffusion of the most common mistruths, fooling all of us, you included.

Let’s start by debunking one of the most diffused belief about wine, in fact, even if you may have heard it before:
 

Slower or wider curtains have no particular relation to the quality of the wine itself! 

Yeah bro, it is all about physics. That’s it. This phenomenon is called surface tension and is the result of the alcohol evaporating faster than the water contained in a glass of wine. The difference among the curtains shown by various wines is given by the alcohol percentage of each one of them. In fact, the more alcohol is contained in a glass, the slower this effect will appear.

Back to the days, when the knowledge and the technology applied to the harvesting and farming of grapes were far away from what we know today, the higher content of alcohol in a glass of wine could just have indicated a riper grape.

Today, this indicator does not make sense anymore as long as the growth of the rape is often daily controlled by specialised staff, able to control the final result in terms of taste and texture, but above al alcohol content.
 

What about the oldie but Goldie one?

Another story that walks along the fields of wine culture since generation is that older wine is always the best one. The actual truth is that not every wine can age for years, in fact, some of them are meant to be drank in their youth, becoming more and more unbearable as they get older, basically losing their higher quality point.

Now you know how to taste and chose a wine, avoiding to be fooled by the two most common disbeliefs that are still around nowadays, even if of course the best wine is the one in the glass ready to be cheered, with the people you love the most! Cheers!