Wine Color Guide for Quality and Age
There is a large quantity of wines and each one has their own color. The Colour Lovers website has launched a wine color guide for quality and age. Color can tell us a great deal about a wine. See some examples:
Red wines are deep red in color. Observing a purple-red suggests a young, but more often immature wine. Ruby is still young, but aged a bit from purple-red. Using the word ‘garnet’ is classic for wines in their prime. Brick red, however, is a little fickle. Paler shades are old, but still healthy, while seeing a bit of yellow or brown suggests a wine past its time. While seeing that bit of yellow or brown at the edge of the tilted wine, it does not necessarily mean the wine is undrinkable.
Purple-red is a common shade for young, often immature wines.
Ruby wines are a more evolved but still youthful shade.
Garnet is the color word for classic wines at the peak of their maturity.
These shades are associated with older but still healthy wines.
Wines with a warm orange color at the rim of the glass during their prime maturation period.
Dark brown colors indicate that the wine is past its prime, though some old red wines are still quite drinkable.
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