Welcome to an exciting journey through blind tasting with Winetribe. If you are new to this area, you are in the right place. This guide will serve as your guide to getting started with blind tasting.
Blind tasting is a fun and exciting way to experience wine without preconceived opinions and attitudes towards the label on the bottle. Blind tasting can also help you discover new grapes, regions and styles you might not have known you liked.
But how do you start? Do not worry. This is where Winetribe comes in!
What is blind tasting?
Imagine solving a detective story or a puzzle - you have all the pieces, but it's up to you to put them together to find the solution. Every aroma, every taste, every texture provides a clue that can help you determine the grape variety, the origin, and even the vintage of the wine.
To explain it more technically, the blind tasting process is about tasting wine without prior knowledge of what you are tasting. This means that you do not know the grape, the region, the producer or the vintage until you taste the wine. The purpose of blind tasting is to judge the wine objectively based on its characteristics rather than brand or price.
But most of all, blind tasting is a fun, insightful and challenging way to improve your wine skills. It's not just for sommeliers - any wine lover can enjoy the process and learn something new at the same time. It helps you develop a deeper understanding of wine, improve your sense of taste and smell, and explore and challenge your own preconceptions.
Get started with Winetribe
With Winetribe you receive five different wines, every two months, in practical 100 ml tubes. Each wine comes with a unique code that you can enter into our free app to reveal the wine. But wait! Before revealing the wine, it's time to taste.
This is how you taste wine
Here is a simple guide to tasting wine:
- See : Consider the wine in the glass. What is the color and clarity? Is it light or dark?
- Aroma : Put your nose in the glass and take a deep breath. What do you smell? Fruits, flowers, spices, soil?
- Taste : Take a sip and let the wine fill your mouth. How does it taste? Is it sweet, sour, bitter? What flavor notes can you identify?
Thats it! It's that simple to start tasting wine. But remember, practice makes perfect. The more you taste, the better you become at identifying different aromas and flavor notes.
In the next section, we will delve deeper into the techniques you can use to improve your tasting technique. We recommend that you download our app, which can be used as another blind tasting tool, and begin your blind tasting journey.
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