31584 - Wine Tasting Techniques

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Food Technology (cod. 0873)

Learning outcomes

 Through instructive tasting the student  will determine your threshold for certain tastes and learn how to identify the flavors in wine. Moreover he wiil be trained to recognize wine faults, to differentiate between different wine-making methods, and how origin can affect flavor.

 

Course contents

Physiology of perception; Fundamental tastes; Identification of aroma components by standards and in wine; Identification of faults. Evaluation tests in sensory analysis.

Readings/Bibliography

  • Pagliarini E. Valutazione Sensoriale: Aspetti Teorici, Pratici e metodologici (Hoepli, 2001). 
  • Ubigli, M. I profili del vino (Edagricole, 2004)
  • Jackson R. S. Wine Tasting (Academic Press, 2002)

Teaching methods

 Students will be provided with syllabus and recommended reading are available in the library. Practical exercises in taste and aroma compounds recognition will be held.

 

Assessment methods

The final evaluation is oral (ca. 30 min.) comprising of four-five questions aimed to verify the knowledge of the student. A practical proof will be included.

Teaching tools

PC, video-projector, sensory laboratory.

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppina Paola Parpinello