Wine Testing and Health
Wine testing is an integral component of the industry, providing services such as quality control, process optimization, contaminant detection and shelf-life evaluation. Winemakers rely on these lab tests to maintain customer confidence while increasing revenue growth while staying ahead of competition in their marketplace.
Taste buds detect all three basic characteristics of wine: sweetness from grape sugars, tartaric and malic acids, and bitter alcohol and polyphenol compounds – in equal measures and an ideal wine should contain an ideal combination of these flavors – making it pleasant and pleasurable to sip.
But a recent study has demonstrated that even experienced wine experts are poor judges of wine. A series of blind tests conducted by Frederic Brochet revealed how dramatically changing glasses could alter both its flavor and aroma; even experienced professional palates could only match wines to their labels in half of all cases studied.
Two wine experts recently exchanged an online discussion over whether nature or nurture play a greater role in wine preferences than was once thought; eventually they reached agreement that both genes and experience have an effect on our preferences; with genetic variants found in TAS2R38 playing an even greater role as one cofounder of Vinome, a genomics company that conducts surveys about customer tastes says. For instance, those able to taste certain compounds found both in Brussels sprouts and some wines having greater ability than previously believed!