Word: merlot
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...Jonquera-Jiménez plans to train the e-tongue to identify more varietals, and that, says, O'Connor, will only increase its value for wine educators like herself. "The human palate is unable to detect that a wine is, say, 20% merlot. A device [with a full range] would be an awesome tool for explaining the mystery of what goes into a wine." Still, she says, don't look for the e-tongue to completely replace the human palate. "This kind of device is purely technical. It's the human palate that determines whether a wine is worth drinking...
...thing after over two decades of war, during which tens of thousands had been killed and some two million displaced. But, retreating to a bush camp - where, thanks to a team of professional caterers airlifted in by the United Nations, we feasted on hot meals and drank South African merlot and ice cold Heineken beer - it emerged that all was not well...
Touring wineries can make you feel like a jerk. Not just from saying that yes, you do totally taste the gooseberry in that merlot but also because the chemistry of oenology makes you feel stupid, the picking and crushing of grapes makes you feel wimpy, and the giant estates make you feel poor...
...martini and a copy of “The Vault Guide to Finance Interviews” 2. A glass of merlot and a James Joyce novel 3. A can of beer and this month’s “Sports Illustrated” 4. Your orgo book, some spare chemicals, and just start mixing...
Late last year, three world-renowned wine experts gathered in a nondescript, windowless room at Changi Airport in Singapore. For two days, they methodically worked their way through some 400 unmarked bottles of Champagne, Chardonnay, Cabernet and Merlot from around the world, pausing only to record scores on a 20-point scale. The test was one that required not only a trained palate but also a certain imagination. The judges had already sampled wines in a pressurized room that replicates the taste-deadening conditions at 30,000 ft., so they knew to choose softer, fruitier wines. After six bottles...