Sixteen animals hide in your tasting notes
Open enough professional tasting notebooks and an animal always ends up climbing out of the glass. Not a polite metaphor — a real animal, written down in black and white, sometimes with more detail than anyone asked for.
At the date of this analysis, out of the 4,143,729 tasting expressions analysed by Tastee, we spotted no fewer than 16 creatures with feathers (occasionally) or fur (mostly). And we're probably not done yet…
Horse crushes the competition, with dog and mouse trailing well behind — three classics that owe a lot to brettanomyces yeast. The rest of the ranking, though, is mostly a showcase of inventiveness: nobody quite explains how you get from a glass of wine to beaver, camel, or squirrel, and that's exactly as it should be.
We promised not to over-explain, so here instead are a few quotes picked straight from the comments — unedited:
« A dog gnawing a bone from a one-eyed butcher »
« Flavours of damp moss recently trodden by wild boars »
« Like Pavlov's dog's saliva »
None of this is a slip of the tongue: it's proof that professional tasting has a far wider imagination than it's usually given credit for. Next time a glass reminds you of something other than fruit, it's probably not you losing the plot. It might just be the right word your notebook is still missing.
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