Five Recommendations Help Attendees to Expand
Wine Tasting Experience
Vancouver, Canada – February 25, 2014 – Quini, the
interactive wine tasting, rating and personalized recommendations application
and data solutions provider (
www.quiniwine.com) today published wine
tasting recommendations designed to help Vancouver International Wine festival
enthusiasts gain the most out of their attendance at the event (
www.vanwinefest.ca) taking place at the
Vancouver .
“The Vancouver International Wine Festival is a great opportunity for wine
enthusiasts of all levels to truly expand their wine tasting experience,” said
Roger Noujeim, chief executive officer for Quini. “By taking time, notes and
paying attention, you can taste more, learn more and discover more about the
wines but more importantly, about your palate and personal preferences. This is
where deeper, richer learning about wine tasting happens.”
Wine Festival Tip #1: Taste Judiciously – Try not to race to
taste as many wines as you can. That’s a wholesale wine buyer’s mission. Even a
professional wine tasting judge’s palate can tire at 60 wines or so. Take your
time and judiciously taste fewer wines. It’s not about the numbers. Great wines
do something great for you. They give you pleasure, evoke or create memories,
and expand your knowledge and appreciation for life and the art of wine.
Wine Festival Tip #2: Be Selective – You are your own judge.
As a wine enthusiast, you have surely bought wines based on a store clerk’s or
friend’s recommendation. You may have asked them for something ‘exotic or
unique’, only to regret it after the first sip. Your disappointment was your
mistake, and you recognized it. Think of wines you have tried in the past. What
you liked and did not like about them. Always realizing that your palate is
unique, tell the representative at the table what you’re looking for, or trying
to avoid. A wine is more likely to satisfy your palate if you let the rep know
what you like.
Wine Festival Tip #3: Take Tasting Notes – If you’ve ever
taken mental note of a wine only to forget it later, you’re not alone. This is
especially guaranteed when you taste many wines in a row. Take a moment to write
down your impressions of your favourites as you work the room, and snap a
picture of the label if you can. Writing down things like “the lady wearing blue
gave me that wine” can be great memory triggers as well. If you have a
smartphone, use it to take notes and pictures.
Wine Festival Tip #4: Mark Peaks and Valleys – Set personal
expectations for wine experiences you want to remember. Criteria that mean
something to you and are bound to make you take notice, and with that, more
easily remember the wine in the future. Extreme sweetness or dryness perhaps, or
a strong acidic flavour that awakens the senses.
Wine Festival Tip #5: Break It Down – In wine tasting,
judgment is more accurate when you break down the experience into components.
Unless the different aspects are rated separately, and carefully, one can easily
slip into a judgment call, unintentionally discarding or diluting other key
pieces. Follow and rate these
five aspects
of a wine when taking notes, taken from the Quini
wine app. Eye
for appearance, Nose for aroma, Mouth for taste, Finish for aftertaste and
duration in the mouth, and Opinion for an overall impression.
A good app developed with experts can be the perfect aid. Use it to evaluate
stand-out wines, scoring the five key areas before moving on to the next wine.
If you’re pressed for time, plug in your initial impressions and set each wine
review to be completed later on with more details and notes.
The wines destined for serving at the event are in the Quini app database.
Festival attendees can rate the wines by going to the TASTE function on the
app.
Quini for iPhone and iPad is available from the
Appstore.
Users can also sign up to use Quini directly on their computer, at
www.quinwine.com.
About Quini
Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Quini is an interactive wine tasting, rating
and recommendations application, and data solutions provider. Quini is co-funded
by its original founding team and CMF (Canada Media Fund). The Quini
mobile App is
available for iPhone and iPad through the Apple App Store. A Web-based version
for desktop and laptop computers is also available at
https://quiniwine.com/signup. More
information about Quini can be obtained at:
Web:
https://quiniwine.com/about.
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@quiniwine
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