Work out your sensory

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train-noiseThe sensory abilities can be trained. This is done primarily through conscious taste of wine. Time and time again you should try the free wine, smell and taste to analyze and describe. The resulting experience should be replaced by anything in the world. Through exercises and references can also train nose and palate.

The train nose

With the help of olfactory references can refresh his memory of certain odors. To this end, there are several sets with the name “Le Nez du Vin”. These are available in several versions, depending on the number of flavors about 70 € to 300 €.


In these sets according to the manufacturer the most important are occurring in the wine aromas and preserved in small vials at any time smell. I have no experience with it, have read but also on the whole, no positive reviews for this set. The flavors are as described by critics as “artificial”. These sets are otherwise quite expensive.

Simpler and much cheaper it is with self-made References. I think that this smell more natural and therefore better.

Recipes for white wine smell References

For most recipes, you need a base wine. This should be a simple neutral wine. Simple Italian Pinot Grigio, etc. for 3 € per surface is perfectly adequate for this.

Lemon Freshly squeezed lemon juice mixed 1:2 with base wine
Grapefruit Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice mix 1:2 with base wine
Pear, apricot, peach respective Granini juice mix 1:1 with base wine
Pineapple drag 1 / 12 of an fresh pineapple in 200 ml of base wine can
Honey 2 teaspoons honey in 30 ml of wine dissolve
Mushrooms 30g mushrooms into small pieces and let stand for 3 hours in 200 mL base wine
Apple Chop the apple and take 3 hours in basic wine can
Grass Chop the fresh grass and pull 2 ​​hours in basic wine can

Recipes for red wine smell References

Cloves pull 2 ​​cloves 3 hours in 100 ml of base wine can
Raspberry Pull 2 ​​crushed raspberries 1 hour in 100 ml of base wine can
Prunes 2 Chop the prunes and let stand for 3 hours in 100 mL base wine
green pepper 10 x 10 mm piece of fresh peppers ml of 30 can pull in 100 mL base wine
Vanilla 1 ml vanilla extract (McCormick) into 100 mL base wine
Oak 1g shavings of oak wood for 60 minutes at 60 C in the oven and roast 3 hours in 100 ml draw basic wine can
Strawberry 30 ml strawberry preserves and a fresh strawberry Lake in 70 ml of base wine
Pepper 2 black peppercorns, crushed in 100 ml draw basic wine can
Herbs 0.5 to 1 ml in 100 ml herbal base wine
Coffee 1 crushed coffee beans in 100 mL base wine
Cocoa 2 pinches of cocoa in 100 mL base wine
Currant 10 Cassis syrup ml in 90 ml of base wine

Who wants to try to identify flavors blind, should the final mixture in each case still colored with food coloring.

Even easier is to realize in the future to go through life. Take every opportunity to realize the different spices in the household, fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc.! to smell and to try to memorize the smell. This trains the sense of smell and is used to describe wine flavors of great help.

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