particles, and this causes irreversible changes in flavor Leftover red wine is best handled by a minimizing its exposure to flavor-altering oxygen, which can be done by means of inexpensive devices that pull the air out of a partly empty bottle, or by replacing the air with inert nitrogen gas, or by gently pouring a partial bottle into smaller bottles that can be filled all the way to the top — though the act of pouring itself introduces some air into the wine Enjoying Wine For those who love it, wine can be endlessly fascinating The varieties of grape, the place they were grown in, the weather that year, the yeasts that ferment them, the skills of the winemaker in handling them, the years they spend in oak or in glass: all these factors and more affect what we taste in a sip of wine And there’s a lot to taste in that sip, because wine has one of the most complex flavors of all our foods Wine connoisseurs have developed an elaborate vocabulary to try to capture and describe these fugitive sensations, one that may seem forbiddingly complicated and fanciful Many of us most of the time would be content with the five F’s proposed 800 years ago in the Regimen of Health for the School of Salerno: Si bona vina cupis, quinque haec laudantur in illis: Fortia, formosa, et fragrantia, frigida, frisca If you desire good wines, these five things are praised in them: Strength, beauty, and fragrance, coolness, freshness On the other hand, we can learn to taste much more in a sip of wine, and get more pleasure from it, if we know something about what’s in that sip, about the kinds of ... one that may seem forbiddingly complicated and fanciful Many of us most of the time would be content with the five F’s proposed 800 years ago in the Regimen of Health for the School of Salerno: Si bona vina cupis, quinque haec laudantur...wine has one of the most complex flavors of all our foods Wine connoisseurs have developed an elaborate vocabulary to try to capture and describe these fugitive sensations, one that may seem forbiddingly complicated... If you desire good wines, these five things are praised in them: Strength, beauty, and fragrance, coolness, freshness On the other hand, we can learn to taste much more in a sip of wine, and get more pleasure from it, if we know something about