The whole idea behind a sensory wine tasting is to explore sights, aromas, and flavors of wine beyond just the simple look, smell and sip of casual wine drinking.
In sensory tastings, the goal is to actually compare and contrast what you experience in the wine with what is in nature. How do you do that? You need to get things to compare. That’s how we learn.
The best way to know if there is the essence of vanilla in your wine is to compare the wine with actual vanilla.
Smell some vanilla. Smell some wine and taste some wine. Did you get the vanilla? What else? Like we’ve discussed before, our senses are powerful and can identify thousands of smells. To break it all down and learn how to focus on specific elements of wine, you need to experiment, and practice finding your way through the maze of your senses. And the best way to do that is by throwing a sensory wine tasting.
