There’s nothing like a trip around the world to broaden a wine taster’s knowledge! In this gift box, we’ve selected four wines that showcase the best the world has to offer. Classic grape varieties that evoke landscapes through their unique characters – fasten your seatbelts, we’re taking off!
First, here’s a quick introduction to the art of wine tasting, so it’ll hold no more secrets for you!
And who better to guide you than an expert?
We hope you enjoyed your tasting 🍷
You love wine, but wine doesn’t love you back. However hard you sniff corks for possible faults, all you can smell is cork. You look but see nothing, sniff but smell nothing, swish the wine around your mouth but taste nothing... Is rosé a blend of red and white? You’ve still got a long way to go, but with practice and plenty of tasting, you’ll get there!
You’ve got the desire to become a true master of wine tasting; what you need is practice. You’re clearly drawn to the world of sommeliers, but your senses aren’t quite sharp enough yet, and all wines taste much the same. But don’t despair: if Beethoven could become a musical virtuoso despite being deaf, there’s hope that one day you’ll be able to tell a Chardonnay from a Champagne. Train your nose and your taste buds – it’s the only way!
Perhaps you spend too much time deciphering the label and not enough analysing what’s in your INAO tasting glass. But you have a taste for adventure: you’re curious about everything and fearlessly hack your way through the jungle of vines. You make mistakes, get lost and fall down, but you always get back up. You have the enthusiasm of a budding oenologist: don’t despair, you’re on the right wine trail!
You’re an initiate of the order of fine wines. You may not yet be a grand master of wine tasting, but you have the discipline and curiosity to get there. Even if you can’t yet pick out subtle notes of yuzu at the end of the second nose of an obscure little wine with pronounced minerality, you know exactly what you like and what you don’t – and that’s already a lot!
The precision of your tasting is almost witchcraft. You’d think you fell into an oak barrel as a child! You excel at the art of wine tasting, you’ve mastered the most advanced techniques and your senses are as sharp as a professional sommelier’s. You’ve certainly got plenty of experience under your belt... You’re not far from absolute perfection!
You’re the Mozart of wine tasting, the Picasso of the Pomerol cellars, the Einstein of pairing aged Savagnin with 36-month-matured Comté and a pinch of salt! You can tell Mourvèdre from Tannat at a glance. Your senses have reached divine heights: you can pick out the most unexpected aromas in any bottle within seconds. You’ve crossed over to the other side: you no longer just taste wine, you write its destiny.
