Top Tips on Structuring and Honing Your Wine Tasting Notes Technique

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Top Tips on Structuring and Honing Your Wine Tasting Notes Technique


Wine Tasting is a sensory examination and evaluation of wine. The process of wine tasting notes is divided into four recognized stages:-

What is a Wine Tasting Note?

1.Appearance 2.“In the glass” aroma of the wine 3.“The mouth” sensation 4.“Aftertaste” or finish of a wine


Vertical and Horizontal Tasting A vertical and horizontal wine tasting is events arranged to highlight the difference between similar wines.

VERTICAL TASTING

Horizontal Tasting

In a vertical tasting different vintage of the same wine is tasted.

In a horizontal tasting all wine from the same vintage but different wineries is tasted.


Techniques To Write The Best Wine Tasting Notes


Write For Your Eyes Only It is essential to follow your perspective while writing wine notes. You don’t have to worry about what the reader will think

Be Specific, But Not Too Much Avoid to make fruit salad when writing

about your wine” – Jefford. While making wine notes rather than explaining every taste and aroma, write the essential description.


Tasting Notes Should Be Like Unique Snowflakes: The best way to write the notes is to ask the write question “Would the notes make sense even after a year�? Remember repetition is enemy while making wine notes.

Do You Love The Wine or Not: Once you have the outline on your wine notes then the next step is to take a side, whether you like the wine? Or NOT! Making a call will help you to be successful in noting the wine taste.


Making wine tasting notes refers to as written testimony about the aroma, taste identification, acidity, structure, texture, and balance of a wine. In other words, wine tasting notes is a simple theory of your favorite wine.

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