Smell the wine.

Smell the wine

  • Swirl the wine in your glass by rotating your wrist -- the key is to arm still and rotate your wrist.  The swirling of the glass mixes oxygen with the wine and releases the wine's aromas to the top edge of the glass.
  • Place your nose just over the edge of the wine glass and take a very deep sniff.  The aromas should bounce off the edge of the glass.