Latest Issue of WS - How to Taste

Thanks for the thumbs-up, B Squad.

I'm looking forward to answering some good sensory evaluation questions/discussion on this board. There's always more to learn...

Also, check out the tasting guide and the other sensory evaluation downloads at:
http://www.winespectatorschool.com/wineschool/Tasting_Guide
I hope that lots of people enjoy sharing the tasting with their friends as they learn more about wine.

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'm looking forward to answering some good sensory evaluation questions/discussion on this board. There's always more to learn...

Also, check out the tasting guide and the other sensory evaluation downloads

here also a sensoric help: aroma-weel
with google you can find more weels, i find that is a great help for wine-starters,
welcome on board!

i'm with you, tsunami. wine wheels are great and i've got a couple versions thumb-tacked on the wall behind my desk.

folks less adept in reading german than they are in pouring a glass of wein may benefit from the english-language version of the wheel posted by tsunami: go to http://www.deutscheweine.de/Frame.asp?Sprache=E and click on "Wine & Pleasure."

this wheel is neat in that it goes beyond aromas and mentions "oral perception." many wheels, and tasters, get stuck on identifying aromas and never really get to the wine's other important features. for people just starting to taste--and for the rest of us, too--it's important to go beyond the aromas and pay attention to the wine as a whole plus its balance and body, texture and finish.

cheers!

gloria,

i have an idea ,

you and i could make a Identification-weel for red , white and sweet.

most people are totaly surprised/impressed when i find out "blind" what kind of wine i have in the glass. the way to check out what it could be? shoulb be possible to integrad in a new wheel.
it coult be a help to identify at least once a while a wine by a person witch had never thought he would come close to identify any wine.

what do you think?

you read my mind, tsunami, but i think that maybe you're one step behind me.

in the courses i've got tasting journal pages that focus on decriptors for whites and reds (you can download some at http://www.winespectatorschool.com/resources). other journals in the school drill down to the descriptors used for tuscan reds, cali cabs, bdx reds, etc.

also, check out the tasting journal pages that go along with the free tasting tutorial that i mentioned in my post on Sep 28.

the tasting journal pages i've designed are not wheels, but they do contain key aromas/flavors such as those found in many wheels. and i think that the journal forms are more useful for many people in that they present a broader range of descriptors such as balance and finish, etc. while they follow the important tasting steps. what do you think?

cheers!
the earnest schoolmarm

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but i think that maybe you're one step behind me.

you would not beleeve that if you would have read carfully

i have went to the link you gave, it's close to a "normal" wheel just strait , what i mentioned is different!

hi tsunami. i guess i need you to explain your idea a bit more clearly. you had mentioned an identification gizmo (wheel or straight) for whites and another for reds...

i hink we've got a version of that in the tasting area linked above.

i didn't include every aroma known to winedom since they're not all applicable to the wines being compared in this tasting. the aromas listed for the white wines, Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay, are the aromas that are frequently associated with those two varietals. the same holds true for the reds journal, which focuses on the aromas found in Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon.

whyt did i decide to not list only
PG romas under PG and only Chard aromas under Chard? i felt that would be too suggestive or leading. (though in many of the courses, the tasting journals are more specific. for instance, when comparing CA Cabs, the aromas/flavors are those normally found in CA Cab.)

i also though it was important to add the tasting steps and the various wine features that are evaluated (which are not in many id gizmos).

what would you add or change to make it more useful?

/your earnest schoolmarm (who knows that there's always more to learn...)

not enough time to answer this,

i will be 14 days offline because i'm in sweden.

i will come back to this later this month.

I've been waiting to chime in on this thread, but I still haven't received my issue!! When I contacted WS to get a replacement, I was told they are out of stock. How the heck do you run out of the most recent issue of your magazine?

PH

hey purple, mebbe it's because i wrote a good cover story? anyway, pop me an e-mail at winespectatorschool@mshanken.com and i'll see what i can find out.

best/gloria

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hey purple, mebbe it's because i wrote a good cover story?

That must be it!! Hope to get a chance to read it. E-mail incoming.

Thanks for trying in any event.

PH

My issue arrived while I was away. I agree wholeheartedly with B Squad that it was very well done. I am passing the issue along to my daughter, who is a budding wine lover. I know she will get a lot out of it as well. Thanks, Schoolmarm!

PH