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May 08, 2005
Sensory Evaluation (NEW COURSE)
Wine Spectator Magazine/School Offers New Sensory Evaluation Course
On May 5th Wine Spectator School added a new course to their list of online classes. The course is titled “Sensory Evaluation.”
Here’s what they have to say about it: “Experts consistently recognize, identify and describe wines. How do they do it? How can you improve your tasting ability? With this course, you'll see--and smell and taste--wine in a whole new way.
Incorporating recent advances in sensory research, this course shows how your senses really work. With this knowledge, you will gain a greater awareness of wine's key components and their contribution to aroma, flavor, taste and mouthfeel.
The course also highlights important tasting techniques and reviews the vocabulary used by experts to describe wines. A series of tasting exercises helps fine-tune your senses and teaches you to avoid common tasting traps.”
Level: Intermediate
Course Length: 3 classes, 90-120 minutes each
Course Access: 10 weeks
Price: $ 69.00
Professor(s): Gloria Maroti Frazee & Gwendolyn Wilson
Check it out let me know what you think–I’d have liked it to be a more “Advance Level” course, but I guess they’ll put another one together someday and call it just that: Advanced Sensory Evaluation!--The one course expert version--lol!:)
Posted by fortna at May 8, 2005 07:00 AM
Comments
My original intent was to name the course Advanced Sensory Evaluation since it contains a lot of expert info (without turning into a biology or chemistry course).
In the process of writing the course, I realized it would be arrogant to call a course by that name since, as you suggested, no single course could teach everything you need to know about wine. True expertise, let alone connoiseurship, requires years of study and tasting.
I hope you agree that this course presents a solid road map, especially when combined with our other seminar courses. I'm always looking forward to more feedback so I can keep improving the courses.
Cheers!
the Schoolmarm
Posted by: Gloria Maroti Frazee at May 10, 2005 08:54 AM