Comments on: Duly Noted II: Your Brain on One Wine

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:09:09 +0000

Thanks for pointing out these links Steve.

By: Steve De Long

Steve De Long — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:21:53 +0000

Hi Marcus, that’s the best thing I’ve heard since my laptop melted down a week ago!

Isn’t it counter-intuitive that a little paperwork can make the whole wine tasting experience more fun? Doing a little research in to the background of a wine also makes it more fun for me. Not pertaining to wine, but I remember a an outing about 10 years ago to Coney Island (NYC) where a bunch of friends and I watched a short documentary on the history of Coney Island before we went. The place was a wreck, so it was nice to have the ghosts of its past fresh in our minds; a great day out would otherwise have been just another day at the fair.

There are some other great approaches to wine notes that aren’t systematic that I should mention.

Terry Theise writes about his method in his catalogs here: http://www.skurnikwines.com/msw/terry_theise.html

Chris Coad, who writes perhaps the most enjoyable wine notes around gives a short how-to here: http://www.compleatwinegeek.com/tn.html

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:50:17 +0000

Finished! Finally. Here's what happened.

By: Burt

Burt — Sat, 27 May 2006 14:46:42 +0000

That’ll do it. Thanks!

By: Steve De Long

Steve De Long — Sat, 27 May 2006 14:29:48 +0000

There's several things to download so they may have easily been overlooked. Sandy, I'm not sure if you had a chance to see the blank tasting form -- direct link to the download page HERE -- or if you're talking about something completely different. Anyway, I'm a big fan of BYOW myself! Burt, Thanks for the comments. Im not sure if you saw my written notes for this wine -- the direct link to the .pdf file is HERE -- please let me know if that's what you're looking for. Thanks, Steve

By: Burt

Burt — Sat, 27 May 2006 13:59:16 +0000

Good article – just one request/suggestion: How about listing your own thoughts on the aromas present in the wine? I can understand being vague about this, in order to avoid influencing other tasters to detect something that they may not have on their own. But maybe a link to your exact impressions, so after we make our own we can compare to yours and revisit the wine to see if we can detect anything else.

Also, thanks for the great flavor wheel links. Those are going to help.

By: Sandy Ward

Sandy Ward — Sat, 27 May 2006 04:14:19 +0000

It might be a great idea to build a template like this for people to discuss a wine with something in common. I am a big support of bring your own wine (BYOW) and it would be great to have a template for people to write down their tasting notes. If I build one I will let you know...