Wine tasting sheets help determine wine's rating

Wine drinkers evaluate wines using wine tasting sheets. The sheets can have a rating system based on a variety of scales: the twenty point scale, the ten point scale, or whatever scale the wine drinker wants. Judging wine with a scoring system on wine tasting sheets helps the wine drinkers develop their wine description skills and gives them a record of their wine history. These records can tell drinkers what to buy and what not to buy in the future.

Wine tasting sheets can have the following information: date, location, drinkers’ names, wine name, price, distributor, color, nose, taste, length/finish, and overall impression. The color is the clarity and depth; the nose is the balance and complexity; the taste is fruit and heat; and the length/finish is the aftertaste and layers. The drinker can judge color by holding the wine up to the light or a white piece of paper. The nose can be judged by smelling the wine and noting what smells are present. To judge taste, the wine drinkers should vigorously slosh the wine in their mouths. All of these elements are assigned point values which are added up. The total points of the wine tasting sheets tell the wine drinker what range the wine falls in ranging from good to classic. The drinker may make notes on the sheet. Besides a numeric rating system, sheets may have descriptors to check off. A common rating system is the University of California, Davis, twenty point system.

Other elements that wine tasting sheets can list are sugar, acidity, body, and tannin. With sugar and acid, the wine drinker should judge if it has too much or too little. The body is the fullness of the wine in the mouth as compared to water. Tannins are from the skins, seeds, and stems of grapes and oak, and they give wine a gritty taste. These sheets can help wine drinkers decide what wine to keep and what to pour out.
 

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