Dale Williams
Compassionate Connoisseur
11142
Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:32 pm
Dobbs Ferry, NY (NYC metro)
Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:Matt, where in the UK are you?
Bill Spohn
He put the 'bar' in 'barrister'
9507
Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:31 pm
Vancouver BC
Carl Eppig
Our Maine man
4149
Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:38 pm
Middleton, NH, USA
Bob Parsons Alberta. wrote:the ladies are always the tasters who find something I missed!!
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
9340
Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Jenise
FLDG Dishwasher
42632
Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:45 pm
The Pacific Northest Westest
Bill Spohn wrote:Reading others' notes can allow you to add descriptors to your own vocabulary, but on the whole I think that the chance of being influenced is too great to risk it. I'd have your bottle, make your notes, and when you are finished take a look at other people's notes.
Bill Spohn
He put the 'bar' in 'barrister'
9507
Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:31 pm
Vancouver BC
Jenise wrote:Though I can't disagree with your emphasis on thinking independently, I have learned far more about wine by tasting wine with others than sipping alone. Tasting, then looking up others' tasting notes, then going back to the wine as Matt describes, is probably the next best thing to having someone else to taste with.
I've poured two glasses of the same wine and read out two different tasting notes (neither of them for the wine in question), and then asked what people thought.
Braaackk!! Polly want a tasting note? They spewed back everything I had read out in both cases and thought that the wines were totally different wines - no one saw any resemblance between them, nor had a single original thought about either wine (I used to give wine courses at law school, and if you could find any independent thinkers, that would have been a good place to find them).
Bill Spohn
He put the 'bar' in 'barrister'
9507
Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:31 pm
Vancouver BC
Brian Gilp wrote: This is part of what we were taught at the tasting room. We always gave more introduction to the wines that we needed to move or did not sell themselves on their own merits.
Brian K Miller
Passionate Arboisphile
9340
Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:05 am
Northern California
Bill Spohn
He put the 'bar' in 'barrister'
9507
Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:31 pm
Vancouver BC
Brian K Miller wrote:Check out Vinography, Bill. Alder just had a lengthy rant on this very topic last week.
Ian Sutton
Spanna in the works
2558
Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:10 pm
Norwich, UK
JC (NC)
Lifelong Learner
6679
Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:23 pm
Fayetteville, NC
Does anyone else find that annoying?
MattThr wrote:Is there any way to practice, test and actually improve your sense of taste and smell?
MattThr wrote:Is there any way to practice, test and actually improve your sense of taste and smell?
Bob Henrick
Kamado Kommander
3919
Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:35 pm
Lexington, Ky.
Bill Spohn wrote:Certainly counter-productive in my case, but then I guess I am a curmudgeon.
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