Wine book:Letters of taste by Primer Jacques Puisais

Jacques Puisais is well known to lovers of gastronomy and wines, winemaker, apostle of “taste just” love of men and the land, avid educator, he founded the Institute of Taste in the 70s to promote emergent the notion of taste in young children.

Denis Hervier knows him well and he has shaped for us this primer, drawn directly from the source … It looks like a small booklet in which we can forage on which we can come back regularly. For, needless to say well, it is not in any of a list of technical terms. No, the purpose here is more general: it is no longer here to guide us, give us ways to better taste and enjoy wine and gastronomy, we encourage them to adopt a certain approach to the pleasures of the palate.


While most entries relate concepts therefore quite general, some relate to people who have shaped the world of wine. “Ruin: Swallowing without tasting is the ruin of the palace.” Some entries are thus very short, others reach a dozen or so lines.