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Budman
Master of Wine
Posts:11833
 | | 02/15/2003 7:29 PM |
| plusvini,
This is one of the problems I have with the WS tasting method.
Sure they taste blind, but they're told in advance the varietal, the vintage, and the region.
IMHO, that gives the taster an opportunity to establish preconceived ideas on what scores should be based on the taster's opinion of region, vintage and varietal.
If I were told I'm tasting a flight of 99 Cabs from the Stag's Leap district, and I've already given the vintage a '96', I can't imagine that the scores will be impartially determined.
Just my 2 1/2 centavos. | | | |
| ChangeMe
Grape Stomper
Posts:196
| | 02/15/2003 10:53 PM |
| budman, so are they really tasting blind?
smaug, good point, as the fruit fades, it sure gets harder - well, except for German Rieslings. | | | |
| GATC
Barrel Sampler
Posts:2420
| | 02/18/2003 11:35 PM |
| I found that my ability to tell the different varietals has increased a lot with our monthly BAWE tastings. By picking different varietals each month, I get to try at least 10 wines (usually 16-20) of one varietal that I would not normally try. At the last tasting, we had 2 flights of viognier and 2 flights of zin. I'm not particularly found of either varietal, but most of the people were able to easily pick out the sauvignon blanc (ringer) in the 2nd viognier flights. I was surprised that most could also pick out the Turley in the zin flights. There was a Pride Viognier in both flights and many picked that out as their favorite both times.
I remember the first tasting that we had 8 months ago where we started with 9 CA cabs. It took me at least 30 minutes and several tastings before I could distinguish even one wine from another. Now, when we have these, we are getting pretty good at guessing who the producers are. If I tried one bottle a week, it would take me 10 years to learn what I have learned from the past 8 months of tasting in a group.
I've also noticed that some people are just better than others are sensing the differences in wine. Others are better at verbalizing and describing the differences. | | | |
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