Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare tasting area and taste wine styles
- Prepare tasting area and equipment to facilitate wine tasting according to health and safety in the workplace requirements and workplace procedures
- Ensure that each wine style is presented and tasted under the most favourable conditions for evaluation
- Taste wines in relevant quantities and in the most favourable order to show characters of each wine
- Maintain tasting and work area according to workplace hygiene requirements
- Identify key styles and grape varieties using sensory evaluation techniques
- Follow correct tasting order and procedures using sight, smell and taste
- Identify the key taste sensations according to industry practices
- Explain the characteristics of the key wine styles and grape varieties with regard to sight, smell and taste
- Evaluate and describe the quality and characteristics of the wine style
- Ensure that evaluation conditions are as favourable as possible to minimise impact on outcomes
- Identify basic wine faults
- Communicate basic information about wine styles