There is a large spectrum in wine tasting abilities. On one hand, there is the new comer who valiantly tries new wines in the hope that they may find one that they enjoy and on the other hand there is the connoisseur who has spent a large part of their life tasting and getting to know wines in the same way a painter knows colours. Between the two levels a massive void exists. It is here that biases exist in many different forms when it comes to wines. These biases effect the way people taste wines and inherently it changes the way they perceive their overall taste.

Wine tasting is an occasion of nuance. Each wine has to be in its perfect state and you have to have your pallet in the perfect state in order to best understand the unique markings of each wine. Having crackers will help clear your pallet before each wine tasting but before you can best describe a wine’s qualities in glass, in mouth and its finish you have to prepare the wine.