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Day: October 8, 2019

Drinking wine, for science!

Posted on October 8, 2019October 16, 2019 By admin


OK, well maybe not for science, but certainly for education. I’ve been following the Wine & Spirit Educational Trust – Level 2 wine tasting course for the past 6 weeks. The final exam was tonight. It was really interesting. Over 15 hours of theory and 45 guided wine tastings, we covered (among other things):

– How to taste and describe wine using the Systematic Approach to Tasting Wine(SAT)
– How environmental factors, grape-growing, winemaking and maturation options influence the style and quality of wines made from eight principal grape varieties.
– The style and quality of wines made from 22 regionally important grape varieties produced in over 70 geographical indications around the world, with key labelling terms used to indicate origin, style and quality.

I’m going to clean up my notes and link them here later, so that I have a handy reference card for future use :)

I should get my exam scores in about a month. Watch this space.

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Well colorize me impressed

Posted on October 8, 2019 By admin

Lolita, the group lead, has asked one of the team to take “nice and consistent” pictures of all of us for use in presentation materials and the such. While I normally hate having my picture taken, this was actually fun and for once, I don’t look like a deranged serial killer.

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Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.
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