Learn How to Blind Taste Wine Like A Sommelier | Insider Tips & Tricks
Blind-tasting wine may seem like some sort of psychic talent, but there's actually a tried and true method you can use to figure out the wine in your glass, even if you have NO IDEA what it is! It all comes down to combining your palate training with wine theory knowledge, which is how sommeliers blind taste. In order to determine the place, grape, age, and quality of a wine, you need to start by determining if it is an old world or a new world wine, and then if it's a warm climate or cool climate wine. From there, you can use clues from the sight, nose, and palate of the wine to figure out the likely grape. Then, combine that with the knowledge you know about the place to eliminate options and land on a result! I know this may sound complicated, but after you watch this video, you'll know exactly how sommeliers use clues and knowledge to blind-taste wines!
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00:00 Introduction
01:46 Why blind taste?
03:47 Goals of blind tasting
05:14 How to blind taste
06:10 Goal 1: place
07:21 Goal 2: grape
09:19 Initial Conclusion
10:01 Goal 3+4: quality and vintage
11:06 Conclusion and outro
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Woow fantastic video! Thank you
Great video! Looking forward to next week's video when you do a blind taste!
You are a great teacher
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Glad I could help!
One of many vids that have helped me so much. Thank you
@visforvino
11 ай бұрын
Glad it helped
i like your videos! I am also a wine fan and deal with wines from Italy, in germany. It is motivating to watch you blind tasting the wines and makes you want more!
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Luca! Check out our new blind tasting series “Vino Blind” I think you’ll like it!
Very helpful video!!! I will be learning to blind test as my next step!!! Thank you!!!!
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Thanks
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
Love this content! Keep the advanced topics coming please!
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed! Any topic ideas by chance?
@K-JFDI-W
Жыл бұрын
@@visforvino you could break down some of the scales for the characteristics by the wine you shown as generally used for tastings… e.g. those wines sorted by colour liquid they make, or wines sorted by tannin levels, or alcohol ranges, just to really help aspects of elimination
@K-JFDI-W
Жыл бұрын
@@visforvino unusual serving temperatures by niche wines, that break away from the average white/red standards
@K-JFDI-W
Жыл бұрын
@@visforvino Climate types and some of the geographic characteristics that mean you could look at a map, have a general understanding of altitudes/relief of the landscape, and work out the climate type
@K-JFDI-W
Жыл бұрын
@@visforvino variations in the wine making process and what they do to expressions of certain wines that do/don’t use those variation’s
Wow, I learned a lot from this video, even if I will never blind taste. Those grids appear to be very useful.
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
They are! Give it a shot one time, it can be fun! Grids are in the description.
Bring chaos to the table: blind taste your friends with a Portuguese red from native grapes blend 😁
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
haha That for sure would be tough!
V- you should consider doing a video of a handful of wines that are extremely attainable to find in everyone's big box stores in the USA and go through the grid, I feel like I would need to kind of be told which wines and what flavors aare medium plus or medium mines just to even know how to describe it....
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Appreciate the tip. Check out the new blind tasting series, those wines (or comparable wines) are very easy to find!
Blind tasting on a basic level, to be able to ID a wine variety, it's general age, and it's approximate geographic origin is something that anyone who is a supertaster can learn to do easily--you just have to taste a LOT of different wines, and have a good memory for flavor notes. But the level of "blind tasting" used to get the Master Somm level certification for CMS is, at best, a parlor trick, and is entirely a game of chance, that you. use your knowledge of wine typicity to increase your chances of guessing it correctly. Anyone who says that Master Somm-level testing using blind tasting is in any way scientific, knowledge-based, or legitimate (any more than "card-counting" in casino gambling is) is just blowing smoke. If you want to prove this, just hand three different Primitivos to a Master Somm in a blind tasting--they will get them all three wrong, guaranteed. Some will be identified as Lodi Zins, some will be identified as Argentine Malbecs, some will be ID'd as young Right Bank Bordeaux, and some will be ID'd as New World Cab Franc. It's actually comical to watch. And it's even more comical to watch their brains melt down when you show them the bottle, and they realize they literally get EVERYTHING wrong. There is a reason Primitivos are prohibited in CMS Testing--they are nearly impossible to identify reliably by using this typicity elimination system. Somms LOVE to drink Primitivos because they are delicious--but they HATE them on an academic level, because they literally don't work in their system of blind tasting and identification...
@TheMV1992
11 ай бұрын
Interesting anecdote, thanks for sharing
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You make it look like very easy :) I can hardly seperate wine from venigar :)
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
haha! I always tell people, you didn't have a preference between a Big Mac and a Whopper until you tried enough of them both. It's all practice and repetition!
@TheMV1992
11 ай бұрын
Don't worry, you're not the only one, most natural wine aficionados are just like you 😉
I did WSET and this was required at level 3. I’ve only passed that portion.
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Yes, they do a little differently than CMS, but I know its very similar!
Good and useful video. However, I believe some statements were overgeneralizations. Such as malo=chardonnay or carbonic maceration=Beaujolais. Malo is also used in some other wines and, carbonic maceration doesn't seem the norm for better (cru) Beaujolais. I understand these served as examples and this format is not the place to go into great nuance, but I think it's important to not teach beginners "facts" that are only partially true.
I've got a question. Do you normally use a black glass to taste blind? Especially in combination with the sommelier exam? Or is that as well just for fun? Or couldn't work like that?
@visforvino
2 ай бұрын
Actually, sight is important when blinding, so yuo want to use a regular glass! Winemakers sometimes use black glasses when determining their blend though!
I’m studying now to become certified somm
I would think some experience in making wine would help somewhat in being in the wine business, no?
@visforvino
2 ай бұрын
For sure, and vice versa. A lot of somms work a harvest or two, and a lot of winemakers start on the consumer side of the industry.
In blind tasting red wines I tend to get lead by the diacetyl coming through as a new world characteristic. Sadly these days European producers have also started doing this making that harder. Either way I absolutely love blind tasting as an exercise.
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed, thanks for the tip!
I think answer is wrong, if you talking about wine in video, because it is not Burgundy wine bottle shape. But all in all nice video nice content!!!
@visforvino
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, this was all just a hypothetical, the bottle was there just for display. But next week, I'll release a video where I actually blind taste!
@MantasSarkiunas
Жыл бұрын
@@visforvino waiting for that video. Best wishes from fans in Lithuania.
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The grid link is dead 😮
@visforvino
9 ай бұрын
Fixed!
@Ancipital_
9 ай бұрын
@@visforvino thank you! 🙂 🙂 👍