Overview

In this course the focus is to help the students learn their abilities and how to keep improving. The course will help develop an understanding of the students individual taste abilities while teaching how to describe with confidence what their experiences are. There are many tests and practical exercises in order to really help progress as well as advice on how to continue to improve after the course.

Topics covered

Theoretical

• Understanding taste.

• How the human sensory system works.

• A look into how we perceive flavours.

• What we get wrong when trying to taste.

• How to learn your biases and techniques for not letting them affect you.

Practical

• Learning your taste thresholds.

• Descriptions of basic tastes.

• Understanding Organic Acids.

• Smells and how to remember them.

• How to make detailed flavour descriptions.

• Tests to challenge and improve your taste recognition abilities.

• Tastings designed to push your descriptive skills.

• Understanding what type of tasting approach you need to use depending on the situation.

• When to use certain cupping forms and what other methods can be used for better analysis.

{ Experience needed }

This course lasts two (2) days.

€700 (incl. VAT)