Wine Tasting Score Card

A Wine Tasting Score Card Helps Your Keep Track of the Wines You Enjoyed

A score card will assist your guests in creating notes about the wines they drink. Whether for a casual or formal wine tasting parties, scorecards help you remember which wines you particularly enjoyed.

Now that you have decided to hold a wine tasting party, remind your guests that there really are no wrong or right answers. Their scores should be subjective and a difference in palate, serving temperature and individual preferences determine the scores, rather than anything else.

Some great wine books suggest using a scoring sheet to help keep track of your impressions of each wine instead of your memory. That way you have a good idea of which vineyard or winery you want when you need to buy wine.

There is no need to be an expert to utilize score cards for party tastings as it is evaluated and sampled. Remember that a wine party is purely for the purpose of having a good time with friends.

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There is no special rule that requires a blind tasting by each person when serving wine at a party. However each taster must use only the wine in her glass to either identify bad wine or recognize a really good wine without looking at the table for the best results. Why? Think about it, instead of knowing exactly the reputation, price or vintage of a bottle; guests are using their senses of sight, smell and taste as useful tools to determine facts about what is in their glasses.

Have you even been blind folded and given two glasses of wine at the same time, one white wine the other red wine. Can you smell the wine's aroma and taste which is which? It is a fun wine experiment and you might want to try it the next time you are hosting a wine tasting party. As you get used to the exercise you learn what to look for when tasting a new or different wine.

Want to learn a little of what the "wine experts" do when they participate in a formal wine tasting? The excellent book Judgement of Paris by George M. Taber tells the story of how the French were served California wines next to their local wines in a blind testing. To everyone's amazement the California wines to top honors. The wine tasting score cards were an essential part of the process.

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