Expanded edition · 50 PAGES
Beyond the Label
An eight-session practice handbook for thoughtful blind tasting
Build sensory vocabulary, plan comparison flights, separate preference from identification, and lead useful reveals. Includes an eight-session program, worked scoring and sample calculations, completed records, and printable participant and organizer sheets.
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WHAT YOU WILL FIND
A thoughtful
companion.
50 pages including the cover, contents, and references. Worksheet pages, where included, are designed to print at actual size.
- Begin with a question, not a reveal
- Choose the kind of answer you need
- What expectations can change
- The same glass can produce different reports
- Build a vocabulary you can actually use
- Keep the organizer's record separate
- Give every score a question
- From results to a fair conclusion
- Plan the samples before buying
- Flight brief: Riesling and sweetness
- Flight brief: a pepper-like impression in reds
- Flight brief: Chardonnay beyond a single style
- Session one: describe before you identify
- Session two: a duplicate and a different wine
- Session three: preference without a prestige cue
- Session four: build an argument from clues
- Session five: investigate your own rule
- Session six: lead the reveal
- Session seven: return to an earlier comparison
- Session eight: design and host a focused tasting
- Review your eight-session record
- A completed organizer's record
- A completed participant sheet
- Participant sheet: two wines
- Organizer sheet: a checked comparison
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