Trying to critique a wine but but can't find the right words? Beetroot perhaps? You need Carl Tashian's Wine Flavor Visualization: What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine.

It's all in the delivery, and how you carry yourself off, not what you actually say. Stick your nose into the glass. Sniff deeply, then close your eyes as though you're processing a lot of things simultaneously. Even if you smell nothing, act as though this drink is a cornucopia of sensations and you're sorting through all of them. Do not speak. Scent is pretty easy to verify, so ... Read full entry