The wine tasting school for beginners, experts and oenologists
"Wine tasting is an activity open to everybody. French do not have the monopol, nor experts or oenologists […] the aim remains common. It allows us to gauge and to understand a wine." The foreword of the Petit Traîté de la Dégustation (Short Treatise of Wine Tasting) drew my attention.
I like good wine, but do not feel confortable to gargle with it in public, nor to spit it out in a pan, even if it is perfectly sparkling. Let us not speak about champagne. When I meet Jacques Vivet, he welcomes me in his school for beginners, experts and oenologists.
The location is privileged, near the Jardins du Luxembourg, with a pleasant wooded courtyard and a light-flooded tasting room. Jacques Vivet explains me that one of the most exceptional event took place in the Louvre’s basement, and I understand that the place is part of the tasting.
I am discovering that the wine speaks to all our senses: its colour, its perfume, its sound and taste. Tasting a few wines takes several hours, and is a festive and cultural moment. An entertaining moment too, when it consists in the application of the method called SIP-SAP (without any preconceaved ideas) which is a blind practice, with hidden label.
«A prejudice is nothing but an error which took roots» this applies for the wine tasting art and in life.
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