Beyond Flavour: Wine Tasting by Structure

by Nick Jackson

Beyond Flavour  is a practical guide to wine tasting which will help wine professionals, students and amateurs improve their tasting skills and understanding of the world's wines. The book offers detailed descriptions of the key attributes of major grape varieties and wine producing regions, and argues that assessing a wine's structure - acid structure in white wines and tannin structure in red wines - is a more reliable indicator of a wine's identity than the traditional reliance on flavour.

This second edition of Beyond Flavour, now available in hardcover for the first time, contains a broad range of new material not present in the first
 
Producer recommendations for each variety and major region of origin A 'confusions' section in each variety entry, detailing how to distinguish between similar tasting varieties Every variety entry has been re-organised, and now begins with a clear statement of the variety's structure All the regional style discussions now immediately follow each relevant variety, reducing the need to flip between sections Three new variety entries (Verdejo, Tannat, Saperavi) Each variety entry has an illustration A table of structure, summarising each variety's structure A table of indicative analytical values, summarising alcohol and sugar level in key sparkling, sweet and fortified wines Much of the content has been re-written, incorporating new insights, especially the new concept of 'construction' A glossary of wine terms used in the book An index
Beyond Flavour includes analysis of wine style by country and region, tips for how to taste for quality, and approaches to blind tasting exam questions. Beyond Flavour is an indispensable guide to wine tasting for anyone seriously interested in understanding why wines taste like they do.

Genres: Wine

264 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2022

Reviews

[Fern · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Wine tasting book

Nick Jackson explains the concepts around blind tasting in a succinct easy to understand way and his explanations on identifying grape varieties purely using acidity and tannin is revolutionary. Studying for a blind tasting exam myself I have gained so much insight and clarity from this book and have added to my arsenal of knowledge in identifying regions, grape varieties and quality levels. This is a must have book for a wine nerd.

[Sacha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super interesting way to consider wine and helped me to better understand further reasons why I prefer certain wines to others. Defo one for the nerds 🤓and wouldn’t use it to replace any more traditional wine tasting reads. More of a supplement.

[Giuseppe Sepe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Could a variety even be trusted to taste consistently the same?