How to taste wine (Broché)

A simple approach to help everyone to understand and share the taste of all wines.

Using this approach and allowing curiosity and wonder to guide your wine tasting is the golden ticket to a journey of the senses and of the mind.

Wine tasting involves all our senses; it relies on the eyes for colour, the nose for aromas, the ears for effervescence, the palate for aromas and flavours.

All that remains is to perceive, identify and express what is sensed.

Wine-lovers, be they novice or expert, will find in this book the methods and essential notions of agronomy and oenology, as well as a glossary to help them better understand the language of the wine world.

Former cellar master, trainer at Business School (INSEEC) and professional taster for wine conformity and classification organisations, François Martin is first and foremost a teacher of wine tasting at the Tasting School (latelierdegustation.com). He is also the author of Guide des Grands Crus Classés (Éditions Sud Ouest) and a first novel, Le Chant des Vignes (La Geste).