Wine Tasting

Wine Tasting

The art of Wine Tasting

Most wine tasting “experts” say that wine tasting is an art and not an exact science. When someone tastes a wine it will be his or her personal choice and they way they perceives the taste of the wine. Therefore wine tasting is subjective, but if done via a panel of tasting, should give a good indication on the wines in question.

For example if we have ten wine tasters giving their opinion of a particular wine and seven out of ten give it the thumbs up then the wine would get a rating of seven on a scale of 1 to ten. This provides a clear indication of the wine quality. However it is often the case that wine tasters from different countries will have different opinions.

The art of wine tasting is a very old tradition which goes way back in time when you would get have a wine taster to taste the wine before the King would consume this. This may not have been just for quality but to ensure the wine was not poisoned.

The art of wine tasting is split into four established stages or areas which are; appearance (how the wine looks), fragrance (how the wine smells) in month sensation and finish often referred to as the aftertaste of the wine.

To ensure that wine tasters are not biased to any particular wine, blind tasting are used, whereby the tasters receive the wine without having seen the bottle or label of the wine to ensure impartial judgments.

If you would like to participate in wine tasting there are many courses around the country where you can learn these skills and these should be very enjoyable courses.

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