1 - Systematic Approach to Tasting Wine Flashcards
What is the purpose of the SAT?
To develop two fundamental skills: the ability to describe a wine accurately and the ability to make reasonable conclusions based on these descriptions.
What will practicing with the SAT provide?
A disciplined and structured template that will remind you to consider all of the important elements of a wine.
What is the evaluative part of the SAT entitled, and what are the two category headings it contains?
“Conclusions’ and this contains the two category headings: ‘Quality Level’ and ‘Level of readiness for drinking/potential for aging’
What is the Wine-Lexicon?
A list of descriptive words covering some suggested aroma and flavor terms that may help you to describe the wine you are tasting.
In basic terms, what will different tasters have different sensitivities to?
Different levels of a wine’s structural components: sugar, acid, tannin and alcohol.
True or False - during the exam, you can use a range of descriptive terms if you feel a wine’s attributes, such as color, are on the boarder between categories?
False - during the exam you must select one or the other of the offered descriptors. If the examiner feels as though both answers are acceptable, then credit will be given for either answer.
True or False - for Level 3 Wines, the use of five levels of descriptions, such as medium +/-, means that all five parts are of equal value in the consideration of a wine’s structural components?
False - it is important to remember that ‘Medium’ is one of the most common terms used for describing many attributes, but that the high and low end of the scale are also ranges and should be considered in full.
What will an ideal tasting environment consist of?
Good natural lighting and is odor free. Should also be sufficiently sizeable to lay out glasses, notes and a spit cup.
What can being dehydrated do to your tasting ability?
Can cause your nasal cavity and aroma receptors to be dry.
What is the ideal style of glass for tasting wines?
An ISO glass.
What are the two points of the scale when describing Clarity?
‘Clear’ and ‘Hazy’
What is ‘Intensity’?
How much color the wine has.
When looking at the wine from the top of the glass, what would be the proper description if you were not able to see the stem of the glass through the wine?
Deep
A white wine with a broad watery rim would be considered at what level of Intensity?
Pale
Color in a wine is the balance of what?
Levels of red, blue, yellow, green or brown found in a wine.
