Nomadic Wines

Tasting wines and identifying chemicals

I am working on a project that involves analyzing the chemistry of wines, so I came across this article entitled "Are reductionist approaches useful for understanding wine?"

I think the general concern is that winemaking and wine are being reduced to a single analytic method, instead of an art that allows for faults. A wine may have faults, but it may still be great as a whole. Sometimes subtlety and defects can make an experience more memorable. In general, I guess I agree with the traditionalist for this argument.

My question isn't whether we can analyze wine to determine what chemicals will get a highly rated wine; I am interested in finding out if you can analyze two wines and determine whether they'll be similar based on their chemistries.

Labels: chemistry, wine

posted by nomadfromcincy @ 2:15 AM