We thought we’d quickly point out a little feature on the Wine Spectator website that we sometimes participate in when it pops up on our Google reader feed…
“What are you tasting” is a quiz that offers you a tasting note, and then asks you to answer four questions about the wine — grape variety, country, age of the wine, and region within the country — each with multiple choice options to select.
Though of course this doesn’t compare to identifying a wine correctly in a blind tasting, it does have some educational value. Maybe. Or so we tell ourselves as we defend our web-surfing as a “valid” work-time activity. At the very least, it’s a marker that we’re getting slightly smarter about wine (or smarter about the formula that Wine Spectator uses in their notes), since our scores have increased from an average of 2 of 4 correct, to today’s 4 of 4 correct.
Now, go on over and give this quiz a try!