TY - JOUR
T1 - Judging wine quality
T2 - Do we need experts, consumers or trained panelists?
AU - Hopfer, Helene
AU - Heymann, Hildegarde
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the American Vineyard Foundation (grant # 523 (2012) “Judging Wine Quality”) and Jerry Lohr for making this work possible. A big Thank You to all panelists and experts for their time and efforts, as well as Christine Wilson, Meredith Bell and Anna Hjelmeland for their help. We acknowledge the wineries who donated or discounted the wines used in this study, including Alexander Valley Vineyards, Baily Vineyard & Winery, Biltmore Estate Wine Company, Cameron Hughes, Cecchetti Wine Company, Inc., Convergence Vineyards, Dogwood Cellars, Fields Family Wines, Le Vigne Winery, Mettler Family Vineyards, Monte de Oro Winery, Muscardini Cellars, Perrucci Family Vineyards, Sean Minor Wines, The Wine Group, Tricycle Wine Co., V. Sattui Winery and numerous others.
PY - 2014/3
Y1 - 2014/3
N2 - A Descriptive Analysis panel, wine experts and consumers evaluated 27 Californian Cabernet Sauvignon wines with varying quality scores. Descriptive Analysis revealed several aroma and flavor descriptors driving quality scores. For all consumer segments as well as the wine experts, hedonic liking was shown to highly correlate to perceived quality, but for some consumers liking and perceived quality was not at all correlated to the quality scores of the wines. Wine experts were able to find significant differences in liking and quality, but did not agree completely with the assigned quality scores from the wine judgment. Wine experts also used a combination of both descriptive and hedonic terms when describing a high quality wine, indicating that they are better at communicating and describing what they like.
AB - A Descriptive Analysis panel, wine experts and consumers evaluated 27 Californian Cabernet Sauvignon wines with varying quality scores. Descriptive Analysis revealed several aroma and flavor descriptors driving quality scores. For all consumer segments as well as the wine experts, hedonic liking was shown to highly correlate to perceived quality, but for some consumers liking and perceived quality was not at all correlated to the quality scores of the wines. Wine experts were able to find significant differences in liking and quality, but did not agree completely with the assigned quality scores from the wine judgment. Wine experts also used a combination of both descriptive and hedonic terms when describing a high quality wine, indicating that they are better at communicating and describing what they like.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.foodqual.2013.10.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887719772
SN - 0950-3293
VL - 32
SP - 221
EP - 233
JO - Food Quality and Preference
JF - Food Quality and Preference
IS - PA
ER -