What is the point of a blind tasting?
04/13/2017 14:56:11
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Dear Reader
Every week our panel of wine judges taste 40 wines blind. Why blind you ask?
If you want to find the very best wine … you can’t be influenced by the nice heavy imported bottle, beautiful label, price, fancy name, the charming winemaker, the idyllic farm or the delightful lunch you had there … the list goes on.
What you need to do is remove all these aspects from the assessment of the wine. That is what tasting blind does. Every week our panel walks into the Tasting Room, with 40 pre-poured wines laid out in front of their place setting. All they know is which 2 cultivars they are tasting that night. |
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All the judge can see is the wine and a corresponding number. The tasting coordinator is the only person that knows which number corresponds to which wine.
The judge focuses on what is most important—what is in the glass!
That is how you find the best wine. |
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Talking about “ best wines” see below, case in point … if we judged every wine on the price ( most expensive being the best) this wouldn’t have come first. The Hoopenburg Integer SMC 2014 came 1 st out of 20 red blends tasted, and at just R119 per bottle. |
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Best regards,