Blind tasting too awkward

Once branded a "wine expert" title, often curiously asked the question: "do not look at the wine label, guess not guess what wine?" Which shows that ordinary people think of wine experts, not only to taste over all the wine, but also the feeling of each keep in mind, at any time tasted able to recognize them. Such a request is realistic?

According to the authoritative British wine writer HughJohnson JancisRobinson co "Theworldatlasofwine" book, the world is about 30 wine wine-producing countries, and growing among. Some important wine-producing countries, such as France, Italy has more terrain climate and soil of different producing areas. Held in Bordeaux, for example, can be subdivided into 57 AOC AOC Bordeaux grape growers of more than ten thousand and more than 1,000 wineries, each winery and its own production of a variety of different series of wine, so that count, the world's annual production of wine is probably at least hundreds of thousands of models.

If we narrowed it down, for example, guess the country or grape varieties? Admittedly wine in different countries often have different styles, such as the general impression of the Australian wine is rich sweet fruit bomb, Chilean wine a little Bordeaux style, but fruity cooked with green pepper flavor. But in recent years the name of the old world wineries have in Australia, America and even China to invest in the construction of estate wine, bringing European vines, brewing ideas and technology, the difference has narrowed. Old World winemakers by the globalization of markets, and no longer clinging to tradition, but in response to demand more flexibility to adjust the brewing style.

Guess grape varieties, if it is a single species Fortunately guess that from the species characteristics can generally be caught in one direction, and then consider the characteristics presented in the wine-producing areas to lock. For example, Chardonnay is the name of the rich thick with tropical fruit flavor, but produced in Chablis or gold mound there are still significant differences. Blend blending grape varieties? Traditional Bordeaux blending will still be relatively easy, Cabernet Sauvignon solid taste, astringent and high, Merlot mellow fruity determine which varieties much, and then extrapolated it from Left Bank, on the right bank or between two seas. But the premise is that you first have tasted the Bordeaux wines of a single species, the in blending tradition here, a single species in the winery only be withdrawn from the bucket before tasting to get.

If the questions deliberately making things difficult, and got some of the more rare varieties, almost impossible task. The world's most influential wine critic Robert Parker Mr. been vintners placed a guess for a long time the answer revealed, was actually a rare Swiss wines, angry with each other, he never in contact with. Add some information to make a judgment, the possibility of correct answers increased significantly. Factors can not be ignored Year, the idea of the different weather conditions or winemaker has changed, will be completely different with a winery and a wine. The different encounters coupled with year after year, the development of aging in the bottle, or the transportation process and preserve the environment, almost every bottle of wine vary.

Talk so much, now you should understand why wine experts never open play in front of a blind tasting game, right?