Day 15: Wine Tasting and Taking Notes!

Today began like each and every other class day has begun; beginning with French and starting various lecturers. However, today was quite special! We began the second part of our curriculum; wine and viticulture production. Thus, it would be appropriate to begin the days lesson with a formal introduction to wine, it's history, it's types, and it's Terroir. After the power point, we were able to work with an oil kit called "The Nose of Wine"' which was a kit full of various scented oils (54) used to train wine tasters to be able to identify various flavors in wine. Some were easy to figure out (peach, cedar, apple, banana) but there were others that were more difficult to identify (apricot, pear, butter). It was somewhat frustrating because there many oils that I smelt and knew were familiar, however, I couldn't pinpoint exactly what smell it was! And what better way to end the lesson? To have a wine tasting! Our instructor brought three different bottles of Rouge (red) wine for us to try and discuss. It was quite a treat, and I thoroughly enjoyed the lesson because it seemed that our instructor was truly passionate about wine. I'm hoping that as we go through this next section of our course, I'll be able to learn more, taste more, and be able to identify more different kinds of wines!