Years of blind-tasting notes, kept while preparing for the Master of Wine tasting examination, set down as my own study record in the order deduction moves before the glass. Gladly shared with fellow students of wine.
Compiled by Kyunghwa Nam DipWSET, who passed the Master of Wine tasting examination in 2015.
You don't begin by naming the wine. You place it in a broad structural family, narrow to a grape by its tell-tale markers, then to an origin by climate and winemaking signature. This whole system is ordered to mirror that descent, so studying it rehearses the reasoning itself rather than memorising a list.
The widest cut: White, Red, Sweet & Fortified, Sparkling & Rosé, then the structural axis within each.
The variety, read from its defining markers: the aromas, acid and tannin it cannot hide.
Region and expression, settled by climate, ripeness and the winemaking choices in the glass.
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What you see here is a personal record of years of blind-tasting practice, drawn from many handwritten notes and timed mock-exam papers kept while preparing for the Master of Wine tasting examination. It compresses that training; it does not replace it.
It is shared in the spirit of passing on the reasoning behind the glass: not a list to memorise, but a way of thinking. The Korean edition makes that reasoning available, in full, to Korean tasters for the first time.
This is a personal study record, built while preparing for examination — a guide to reasoning, not a definitive standard. It is not perfect and may contain errors, so please verify against official sources before exams or professional use.
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