First, here’s a quick introduction to the art of wine tasting, so it holds 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 the corks for possible faults, all you can smell is cork. You look but see nothing, sniff but smell nothing, slurp but taste nothing… Is rosé a blend of red and white? There’s a long way to go, but with practice and plenty of tasting, you’ll get there!
It’s not the desire to become a true master of wine tasting you lack — it’s practice. You clearly aspire to be a sommelier, but your senses aren’t quite sharp enough yet, and all wines taste much the same to you. 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 — that’s the way forward!
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 with a machete. You make mistakes, get lost and fall down, but you always get back up. You have the passion of a budding oenologist: don’t despair, you’re on the right wine route!
You’re an initiate of the order of fine bottles. You may not yet be a grand master of wine tasting, but you have the discipline and curiosity to get there. You might not yet pick out subtle notes of yuzu at the end of the second nose of an obscure little wine with pronounced minerality, but you know exactly what you like and what you don’t — and that’s already a lot!
The precision of your tasting borders on witchcraft. You’d think you’d fallen into an oak barrel as a child! You’ve mastered the art of wine tasting, you know the most advanced techniques inside out, and your senses are as sharp as a professional sommelier’s. You certainly know your wine… The path to absolute perfection is just a few steps away!
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 few grains of salt! You can tell Mourvèdre from Tannat at a glance. Your senses have reached godlike heights: you can pick out the most unlikely aromas in any bottle within seconds. You’ve crossed over to the other side: you no longer just taste wine, you write its destiny.
