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How good are you at detecting licorice and passion-fruit in a wine? Can you tell the difference between black currant and red currant? How about just red cherries and black cherries? There are a lot of flavors and aromas that show up in a bottle of wine and the more you know and can pinpoint the more you can say exactly what it is that you like and don’t like about a bottle. Hopefully with PalateMatch you can start to train your palate and we can help you learn to choose wines that fit your palate. Trying new wines and expanding your palate are crucial to finding a better match.

One of the best guides I have seen to training your palate is by Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.TV in episode 148.

Look for more posts and tips in the future that will help you train your palate. Do you have any advice or tips on how to keep your palate “fit”?

Before we begin to post reviews of wine, we thought it would be useful to describe the various categories of observations. Generally we try to describe the particular bottle in terms of brand, vintage, varietals and a typical price for it in US currency.

Next we look at the color of the wine in the glass. Followed up by the aromas we detect on the nose. Then we transition to the actually flavors found. This involves comparing and describing the attack, mid-palate and finish. At the end we rate the wine on a 100 point scale. Keep in mind that the scores are only relative to our own palate and may not be a good guide for you. A wine we rate at 95 points, may taste awful to you. A wine we rate at 75 points, may be fabulous to you. But hopefully the notes on the flavors and aromas will help you learn to match your palate to those particular characteristics which you find appealing. It can also help you avoid those characteristics of wines that you don’t find appealing.

On occasion we may taste a wine over multiple days and give separate tasting notes for each day. This is because some wines will vary significantly as they breath over time.

Are there any other descriptions of wine that you find useful when deciding on the right one?

Welcome to the PalateMatch Blog! We are very excited to have you here. PalateMatch is for matching your palate to various flavors and aromas. We are currently building out features to provide you with a valuable service on the main site. On the blog we will be reviewing various wines and concentrating on the flavors and aromas we detect. We’d love to read your own observations of them in the comments. Also feel free to suggest features for the main PalateMatch.com site that you would find useful.

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