Blind Tasting Benefits

Having taught wine appreciation for well over three decades, I’ve found that, once the technique of tasting is grasped, the best way to learn how to become better at it is through blind tasting. Seeing a wine label before tasting the wine can not only provide information about it, but also conjure up both pleasant and unpleasant memories associated with that wine. All of this influences your impression of it. The key to tasting is to use one’s senses: sight, smell and taste. If you don’t know what the wine in your glass is, then you have to rely solely on your senses to decipher what it’s all about. This makes your senses work harder and more acute to stimuli without any pre-conceived notions of what’s in the bottle.