Wine tasting

In a professional sensorisch tasting and description of wines, two prerequisites must be met to ensure the most objective assessment possible. The tasters must have appropriate training and experience, and rules must be established and conditions created for the execution. See the topic complex under the keywords:

Nose - Geruch: 1 = Olfactory bulb, 2 = Nerve cell, 3 = Bone, 4 = Cell layer, 5 = Switch, 6 = Rezeptor

Tongue - Geschmack: 1 = umami, 2 = bitter, 3 = sauer, 4 = süß, 5 = salzig

100-Point System to Triangle Test

• 100-Punkte-System (international evaluation system)
• Amtliche Prüfnummer (Quality wine examination Germany)
• analytische Prüfung (using technical, physical, optical, and chemical aids)
• Blindverkostung (no information about the wines)
• COS (3 quality criteria in wine evaluation)
• Degustation (wine tasting)
• Degustationsglas (special glasses)
• Degustationsmenue (wine tasting in connection with food)
• Dreieckstest (qualification test for tasters)

Bottle Variance to Open Tasting

• Flaschenvarianz (differences between bottles of the same wine)
• Flight (tasting round)
• Geruch (perception through palate and tongue)
• Geschmack (perception through nose)
• Halbblindverkostung (wines are known, but not the order)
• Handmethode (6 quality criteria in wine evaluation)
• Klassifizierung (systems)
• Konterflasche (tasting a second/third bottle in case of wine faults)
• offene Verkostung (wines without concealed label)

Awards to Vertical Tasting

• Prämierungen (awards for special wines)
• QDA - Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (descriptive sensory analysis)
• Qualitätssystem (quality classes and designations)
• Referenzwein (specific wine type as a benchmark)
• sensorisch (olfactory, taste, and optical analysis)
• Spucknapf (disposal vessel)
• Staatliche Prüfnummer (Quality wine examination Austria)
• vertikale Verkostung (different vintages of the same producer)

Perception Threshold to Re-tasting

• Wahrnehmungs-Schwelle (perception regarding smell and taste)
• Weinansprache (description)
• Weinbau-Institutionen (committees, authorities, associations)
• Weinbewertung (assessment)
• Weinführer (magazines, websites)
• Weinkritiker (known tasters)
• Weinveranstaltungen (exhibitions, fairs, tasting events)
• Wiederverkostung (re-tasting regarding the development of a wine)