A couple of weeks ago, some MBA1s hosted a Trader Joe’s wine tasting dinner; it included various wines from the store under $10 and some of our favorite foods (much like the last day of this class). The tasting was blind - our hosts wrapped the labels in paper towels to obscure them from the rest of us, gave us tastings, had us rate them, and had us write down tasting notes.
I definitely found myself adjusting scores as we went along, but I also found it very difficult to produce coherent tasting notes. It really hammered home what Alder Yarrow talked about during his visit - it’s really difficult to translate what we’re tasting into words. Most weeks in class, I can’t get beyond “sweet,” “not as sweet”, “tart”, “grapes”, “fruity”, “tangy”, and “dry” when trying to think of what the wine I’m drinking tastes like, even though I can taste far more overall subtlety than that, and I’m not under the impression that most of the wine we’ve had tastes the same.
It makes me wish the product my group is presenting for our final really existed!
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