[HN Gopher] An aroma picker for the Le Nez du Vin game ___________________________________________________________________ An aroma picker for the Le Nez du Vin game Author : rcarmo Score : 14 points Date : 2023-09-12 07:16 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (blog.jgc.org) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.jgc.org) | pigsmedallion wrote: | Fun project! This reminds me of the game the main character in | Drops of God plays. Wonderful TV show if you're into wine (think | Queen's Gambit meets Wine) | fancyfredbot wrote: | This game is fantastic, it's alarming to realise how dependent we | are on context to identify aromas. You can try one of the scents | and be entirely unable to identify it, then someone tells you | what it is and suddenly it seems blindingly obvious! | fsckboy wrote: | Le Nez du Vin (french) means in english, "the wine nose" though | perhaps "a nose for wine" might be more in the spirit of what | it's saying. I had some difficulting understanding what this | thing is precisely. | | Just as an aside, I have a lot of years of experience with wine, | tasting, purchasing, drinking, traveling around europe, etc. And | I've never understood focusing beginners on this scent stuff, | like Gary Vaynerchuk has that video with dozens of pots of jam. I | really enjoy wine, but I've never "cared" whether I get a note of | persimmon vs apricot. I like fruit notes, I prefer wines that | show fruit notes, and tasting persimmon side-by-side to apricot, | yeah, I wouldn't mind have the vocabulary on the tip of my | tongue, but does it actually make a difference to my enjoyment? | not really. | | There is an exception, and I'm very interested in it, but it's | highly technical and knowledge not that easy to come by. And that | is, it's easy to make a cheap champagne with notes of green | apple. It's much fancier to make a champagne without notes of | green apple. There's nothing wrong with liking green apple, | perfectually enjoyable, but intellectually knowing what goes into | the wine making to achieve certain flavors/aromas is definitely | interesting. | | So, persimmon vs apricot might tell you something about the wine | varietal or viniculture that is interesting to know, but without | that extra information it's a bit of a "who cares" to me. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-13 23:00 UTC)