Exploring the perception and subjectivity in wine tasting

[Roy Hersh]

A brilliant article from Jamie Goode who is has a background in wine science and is a good writer, accurate and fact based:

http://www.wineanorak.com/subjectivity.htm


So what do you think?

[Glenn E.]

I like it - it helps explain some of the conundrums I seem to face when tasting.

What he didn't say but follows from his information is that in addition to bottle variation, we as tasters are subject to palate variation. Under different circumstances, the exact same wine could taste different because our brains are filtering the input differently. And the difference in filtering could be caused by just about anything.