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		<title>Notes on tasting: How does ‘Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush’ grab you?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This could be one of wine tasting’s most (in)famous quotes. Occasionally, we do need to resort to brutal honesty or shock factor to describe wine, to define that which is rather difficult to pin down &#8211; even for a professional. If it were easy, we wouldn’t have to study for 5 years and sit 10 examinations to be called a Master of Wine. Tasting wine as impartially as possible to evaluate its merits is separate from exercising personal preference and drinking wine for sheer enjoyment. For some consumers, the desire to graduate from casual drinker to aficionado is how ‘swirling, sniffing, spitting types’ are made. None of us emerges from the womb clutching a spittoon and a ready-made repertoire of tasting notes. For others such as cellar masters, winemakers, sommeliers, judges, critics and any industry professionals, wine is not merely a side passion; it is a lifelong career in which tasting is critical and forms part of the educational training. It is widely acknowledged to be far easier to score a wine when vital details such as variety or blend, region and vintage are already known; it is much harder when we are forced to rely solely on sensorial sleuth [...]]]></description>
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