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The Ultimate Wine Tasting Cheat Sheet De Long’s Pocket Wine Tasting Guide is simply the most concentrated form of wine tasting knowledge available anywhere. IT COMBINES THE GUIDES FROM THE WINE TASTING NOTEBOOK IN A COMPACT PACKAGE: 1. Wine Tasting Terms helps build your wine tasting vocabulary with quick explanations of where certain flavours come from. Includes practical details on identifying wine faults. 2. How to Take a Wine Tasting Note walks you thr… More >>
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This makes for a nice foldup wine tasting guide to keep in your pocket. It’s the size of a credit card so you could keep it in a billfold. The one side has 216 common aromas found in wine and the other side of the paper gives hints for taking your own wine tasting notes. I’m just not sure of the value of having it in a small foldable format? Most people who are at a wine tasting are sitting down and it would be much easier to just pull out your Wine Tasting Notebook rather than this piece of paper. His little notebook has all the same information in it as this card. But it is what it claims and would fit in your pocket if needed. Would recommend just going with the above notebook or even The Little Black Book Of Wine: A Simple Guide To The World O Wine (Little Black Books).
Rating: 5 / 5
Professor Ann C. Noble created the Wine Aroma Wheel in 1990, and it has become something of a wine lover’s “must have”. It is based in part on Wines – Their Sensory Evaluation by Maynard A. Amerine and Edward B. Roessler. All three were important members of the faculty at UC Davis, and instrumental in various ways in the growth of the California wine industry.
De Long is quick to point out the value of the Wheel: “The Wine Aroma Wheel is a classic of wine education – I still have mine and found it extremely handy. Like anything, however, there’s always room for improvement. I would like to think of our Wine Tasting Guide as the latest and greatest of wine tasting tools that began with the Aroma Wheel.”
The Guide has a number of advantages over the Wheel: 216 versus 114 terms, 22 versus 13 grape varieties, more detailed descriptions of the terms, and pocket sized. De Long also offers free wine forms on his website. Deborah De Longs are also responsible for the beautiful De Long’s Wine Grape Varietal Table and have created the Wine Century Club: “If you’ve tried at least 100 grape varieties, you’re qualified to join.”
As an experienced wine taster and wine tasting note writer — 15 years and over 50,000 notes — I still find it useful to review the Wheel from time to time. The Guide is more useful, and portable to boot. If you love wine and want to improve your tasting abilities, get a copy of each.
Robert C. Ross 2008
Rating: 5 / 5