VWT 173 Calendar Spring 2014 Wines

Napa Valley College
2277 Napa-Vallejo Highway, Napa, California 94558
1January
23
2January
30
3February
6
4February
13
5February 20
6February
7March
6
8March
13
9March
20
10March
27
11April
3
12April
10
13April
17
14April
24
15May
1
16May
8
17May
15
22
19May 29
18May
27
George Vierra [email protected]
VWT 173 SENSORY EVALUATION OF WINE
Spring 2014 Wines to Taste
Introduction to Class - Smell & Taste DVDs
Wine Tasting Reminder – 5 Pinot Noirs
How to taste wine and use the Napa Valley College Wine Score Card
Teresa Lust “ Wine By Numbers” + (10 wines)
Blending Wines
Lab blend + Rhones + Bordeaux + Meritage + Thunderbird
2014 Tre Bicchieri – Gambero Rosso Italian wines – Fort Mason, SF 3 to 6.
Physiology Dr. Peter Lichty, MD MOH Site Occupational Medical Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – The Taste Committee and Jelly
Bellies – fruit – 6 wines
Sparkling wine. Guest speaker Keith Hock of Schramsberg.
Sensory evaluation program. Guest speaker Lei Mikawa Treasury Wine
Estates’ Sensory Program. Mouthfeel in Reds lecture.
Treasury wines + jug wines
Taste buds and salivation.
PROP, mint, paint tongues w/blue food coloring, drip saliva
Aqueous solns. with sugar and acid
Defects and Assets in Wine + tongue painting with model solns
Sniff defects
Spring Recess
Difference and Duo-Trio Tests and sugar perception in wines
Difference series + Gouges Whites + Chenin Blanc
Aroma Wheel and blind smelling Le Nez du Vin Lean Lenoir
Port + Madeira
M Baldy exercises + astringency building and sausage
Statistics Lecture and distillation +More difference tests.
Cognac + brandy + Armagnac + nuts + Tokaji + More difference tests
Oak-cooperage and oak additives and solutions. Laura Nelson Tonnellerie O
Cooper – cooperage, Doug Manning – Liquid
Oak Tannins. All will have wine samples.
Pinot noir and other clones and hang time study. More difference tests. Diego
Barison of novavine and Bob Herrick of Herrick Grapevines.
4 Cab Sauv Clones + CS clone blend + hang time wines + orange wines
Wine and Food + Beaujolais Nouveau + Barolo + Barbaresco +
Nuits-Saint-Georges Red Burgundy +different Sauv. Blanc wines
Pairing wine and food. (Final Project)
Pairing wine and food. (Final Project)
Final Exam
Chateau d’ Yquem + pound cake
Roald Dahl’ s “ Taste” + Vincent Price & Peter Lorre winetasting video
Foxy, scuppernong, paradigm
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