JilesH

JilesH

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14 years ago @ Winecast - Inventing The New Lang... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hello Tim,
Glad you enjoyed my post and thank you for the link to Petrogasm. I'd not seen that before but, for me many of the images are very evocative - doesn't work every time for me, but then again neither do traditional tasting notes.

I'm fleshing out some ideas based around the senses other than taste : hearing, and touch being the two that are most obviously new to wine tasting.

The thinking behind this is that different people use different senses ot make sense of their world. For some people talking about smell or taste just wouldn't convey much, but explain to them using words that are linked to touch or sound and they will get it.
I use this approach a lot in my champagne tastings and for some people it seems to work.
Might be worth keeping in touch about this.
Jiles

14 years ago @ Winecast - Inventing The New Lang... · 1 reply · +1 points

Post No. 2. - describing how wine makes you feel, not just how it tasted.

One of the guests at a dinner in Champagne was an eminent Japanese sommelier.Towards the end of the meal we were served Dom Pérignon Oenothèque 1973 . The Japanese guest was asked to comment.

He said something like this:
" I woke with the sun streaming through the window and I jumped out of bed, full of energy and life, opened the window and let in the glorious warm sunshine.
I hurriedly put on my clothes and rushed outside. I ran through a meadow full of multi-coloured wild flowers whose powerful perfumes rose up all around me in a huge cloud of scent as I ran through the grass.

I came to a lake whose still surface reflected the bright blue of the sky above. I stripped off my clothes and plunged into the pure water. I felt alive and envigorated as the chill water tingled over my skin. I swam to the far side , climbed out and lay basking on the grassy bank relaxing in the warm sun - entirely at peace."

What about that for a new way to speak of wine?

14 years ago @ Winecast - Inventing The New Lang... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hi everyone, hope I can join in this interesting topic
Here are two ideas ( I'm working on a third, but more of that another time...)

I know a lady who makes her own liqueurs : infusions of gin, vodka etc with herbs, fruit and other goodies - whether you like these or not is beside the point, what's interesting is the way she describes the drinks - she draws them!
She has an artistic background - trained as an artist I believe

Each taste suggests a sensation and shape to her: spikey, smooth, flowing, jagged, round etc etc and she then draws a corresponding sketch of each liqueur.

Once again the point is not whether or not you feel that you would understand this approach, I feel that the point is that SOME PEOPLE DO.

We don't all intepret the world in the same way, so many different ways of describing wine are needed whereas a lot of wine tasting notes are similar, time, after time, after time.

I hope this has been of interest and if it has stimulated some new thoughts do take a look at my second post – I think it’s even more intriguing. There wasn't room to put it here.