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Wine Aroma Descriptors:
Free lists of wine descriptors for wine education purposes. Includes red and white varietal descriptors plus a listing of wine tasting descriptors of oak, malolactic fermentation, aging and and various wine styles. (13k pdf format)
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Mouth-feel Wheel:
A low resolution version of a wine tasting wheel that will help you describe wine mouth-feel. Download a free but low resolution copy here. A full colour A3 laminated version can be purchased from the Australian Society of Viticulture and Oenology (www.asvo.com.au).
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Specialist Wine Score Cards for Red and White Wines:
These wine tasting sheets are based on a 20pt system but can be easily adapted to other point systems. Nice tick boxes on the left hand side to help you describe the colour and appearance of the wine. (12k-15k pdf format)
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Two Specialist Wine Score Cards:
Each wine tasting sheet allows for numerous wines per page and room to record the scores of other tasters. One is ideally suited for wine show judging, another for trade tastings, and others for wine education. (10k pdf format)
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Running a small wine tasting, and want it to look professional? Download a free
four glass place set mat
(Labelled A-D) here. (10k pdf format)
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Need a professional looking
nine wine glass place mat for those larger wine tastings? Comes as two A4 sheets with overlapping graphics, so you can stick them together to make a great looking A3 sheet. And free of course! (10k pdf format)
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Print out these challenging but
fun crosswords A fun way to learn about wine. Wine varieties of the world crossword - Key
Table wines crossword - Key
Sparkling wines crossword - Key
(All in html format)
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Australian wine regions
A bit parochial I know! But where else can you find out what grape varieties are grown where in Australia, how much is grown, and what are the regions like climatically? All in one place. You can find out here ....
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Wine Faults.
Where do the come from? What do they smell and taste like? How can they be avoided? This summary page explains it all. Download it here ....
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English-French and French-English translations of wine tasting terms.
Includes wine aroma, fault, mouthfeel, taste, wine structure and general wine tasting terms. Expanded Version 390+ Terms.
English-French
French-English html format or
English-French
French-English pdf format.
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English-German and German-English translations of wine tasting terms.
Includes wine aroma, fault, mouthfeel,taste, wine structure and general wine tasting terms. 390+ terms.
English-German
German-English html format or
English-German
German-English pdf format.
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English-Italian and Italian-English translations of wine tasting terms.
370+ terms.
English-Italian
Italian-English html format or
English-Italian
Italian-English pdf format.
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Glossary of wine and wine tasting terms.
Seen a wine term that didn't make sense? This may help.
Wine glossary A-L,
Wine glossary M-Z html format or
Wine glossary A-Z for mobile devices.
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Something different!
Olive oil tasting wheel
(right icon) that will help you describe the aroma and taste of olive oil. Click here to view or order a full colour A3 laminated version. Also click here to download
olive oil tasting resources
including a list of olive oil aromas, and various scoring and profile sheets, translations of technical olive oil terms and others.
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Wine Education Articles
Original articles covering a variety of wine tasting topics.
Identifying wine aromas |
Volatile acidity (VA) |
Cork taint |
Wine fining |
Bentonite fining |
Wine fermentation |
Malolactic fermentation |
Sulfur dioxide |
Grape vine irrigation |
Grape yield |
Grape vine rootstocks |
Grape mechanical harvesting |
Wine tasting |
White wine aroma |
Mousey taint |
Brettanomyces taint |
Wine quality ratings |
Oak type |
Oak barrel alternatives |
American oak |
Red wine astringency |
Wine texture |
Wine glasses |
Tongue taste map |
Olive oil tasting |
Microoxygenation |
Salt in wine |
Olfaction |
Sherry |
Texture of wine |
Technical wine glossary A-L |
Technical wine glossary M-Z |
White wine body |
Expert taster consistency
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