Wine tasting

Especially in the professional tasting and description of wines, many factors play a role. These include not only appropriate training and experience, but also rules and framework conditions (environment) defined for this purpose in order to be able to make an assessment that is as objective as possible. See on the complex of topics under the keywords:

100-point system to triangle test

• 100-point system (international evaluation system)
• Official test number (quality wine test Germany)
• Analytical testing (using technical, physical, optical and chemical aids)
• Blind tasting (no information about the wines)
• COS (3 quality criteria in wine evaluation)
• degustation (wine tasting)
• Tasting glass (special glasses)
• Degustation menu (wine tasting in combination with food)
• Triangle test (qualification test for tasters)

Bottle variance to open tasting

• Bottle variance (differences between bottles of the same wine)
• Flight (tasting passage)
• Smell (perception via palate and tongue)
• Taste (perception via nose)
• Half-blind tasting (wines are known, but not the order)
• Hand method (6 quality criteria in wine evaluation)
• Classification (systems)
• Counter-bottle (tasting of a second/third bottle in case of e.g. wine faults)
• Open tasting (wines without hidden label)

Awards up to vertical tasting

• Awards (distinction of special wines)
• QDA - Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (descriptive sensory analysis)
• Quality system (quality classes and designations)
• Reference wine (specific wine type as benchmark)
• Sensory testing (olfactory, gustatory and visual analysis)
• Spittoon (disposal vessel)
• State test number (quality wine test Austria)
• vertical tasting (different vintages of the same producer)

Perception threshold until re-tasting

• Perception threshold (perception concerning smell and taste)
• Wine approach (description)
• Viticultural institutions (committees, authorities, associations)
• Wine evaluation (assessment)
• Wine guides (magazines, websites)
• Wine critics (well-known tasters)
• Wine events (exhibitions, fairs, tasting events)
• Re-tasting (tasting a wine again to see how it has developed)