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Quality and length are
highly correlated things in wine. There is not a good
quality wine which hasn’t got good length as well. The
reason is the greater the quality of a wine,
the greater the intensity of the flavours of
that wine, and the longer these flavours will linger in your
mouth once you would have drunk this wine.
How can
we define the length? The length is how long
the flavours of the wine linger in the mouth once the wine has
been swallowed or spit out. The length is defined in seconds
or “Caudalie”, a French word, where 1 second=1 Caudalie.
Now
what is a good length?
Find below some guidance:
1
to 4 seconds: Short to Average Length. Most wines drunk
by the way.
5 to 8 seconds:
Good to Very Good Length.
9 to 15 seconds:
Outstanding to Exceptional. The Best Wines only!
Above 15 seconds:
Very rare! Some exceptional wines only.
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