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The colour gradation from the heart or core of the wine to the rim, where it touches the glass should be noted. The greatest colour intensity is at the heart, but in the area approaching the rim, the colour is paler and different. For example, a wine that is ruby coloured at its core may gradate to brick red or garnet tones towards the rim, indicating maturity. As the rim of the wine touches the glass, the last millimetre or two will be water clear. The distance of the colour gradation will vary from just a couple of millimetres in a young wine to perhaps a centimetre or more in a mature example. Mature white wines too will have considerable gradation in colour approaching the final few millimetres of the rim, which again will be water clear. The colour of the rim should be observed (any hints of brown being a sign of possible oxidation), and the width of the rim noted, e.g. broad or narrow.