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Common habit could be sabotaging your wine-drinking experience: expert

Nypost · · 601 words · By Fox News
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Common habit could be sabotaging your wine-drinking experience: expert See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google If you want to experience a wine’s full range of flavors, sipping water before or between tastes may seem like a natural way to cleanse your palate — but a sommelier says it could keep you from tasting the wine as intended.

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“Anything you take in your mouth before your first sip of wine is going to alter its true colors,” New York-based sommelier and wine educator Sarah Looper told Fox News Digital.

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Claim 1: “retronasal olfaction... happens when aromas from food or drink travel from the mouth to the nose, affecting how we perceive flavor”
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Three independent sources (Wikipedia, Fiveable, and Done Properly) confirm that retronasal olfaction involves aromas traveling from the mouth to the nasal cavity to affect flavor perception.
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web search NEUTRAL — Retronasal smell, retronasal olfaction, is the ability to perceive flavor dimensions of foods and drinks.
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web search NEUTRAL — The process occurs when food is chewed and aromas travel from the mouth up into the nasal cavity via the throat, engaging our olfactory senses. Retronasal olfaction is distinct from orthonasal olfacti…
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web search NEUTRAL — This phenomenon is due to retronasal perception. While orthonasal olfaction occurs when we inhale the aroma of foods before consuming them, retronasal olfaction occurs when aromas are released from th…
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Claim 2: “Sarah Looper is a New York-based sommelier and wine educator”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Sarah Looper is a professional sommelier and wine educator based in New York City.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985) is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2002 Olympic Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles.
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Claim 3: “People’s palates also vary... pointing to differences in factors such as oral pH and taste sensitivity”
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web search NEUTRAL — A phylogenic model depicts (from lower right) Homo erectus spreading from Africa to Eurasia around 1.8 millions of years ago. Its descendant H. heidelbergensis originated Denisovans, Neanderthals, and…
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web search NEUTRAL — A human, or human being, is a member of the species Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man' in Latin. [4] Carolus Linnaeus put humans in the mammalian order of primates. [1] Humans are a species of homin…
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Claim 4: “The flavors in wine also evolve after it is poured and interacts with oxygen, Food & Wine reported”
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web search NEUTRAL — Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented grape juice. [a] It is produced and consumed in many regions around the world, in a wide variety of styles which are influenced by different varieties of…
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