Template F - Light Essay

Let the reader feel the concentration. A few named facts, almost no quotations, room to be a little poetic.

Studio draft. The shape is the point; the live article is wine-tasting (how it was made).

A B C D E F G

The cork is out. Someone starts the speech.

The 80/20 rule in wine tasting is permission to notice where the evening's pleasure already lives. Smell the glass. Ask if it is sound. Ask if you want more. The speech, the score, and the trophy bottle can wait.

Let the nose go first

Most of what you call taste arrives through the nose. Charles Spence, in Flavour in 2015, says researchers agree on that. They do not agree on a tidy percent. The line that 75% to 95% of taste is smell does not hold.

A few vines cover the map

Of about 10,000 grape varieties, 13 cover more than a third of the vines the OIV could measure in 2017. That is not an 80/20. It is sharper. Learn the few you will actually meet.

The price tag is a costume

In more than 6,000 blind tastings, people who could not see the price enjoyed expensive wine a little less. The trophy bottle is often the part of the night that feels important and moves little.

Three lines, then drink

Smell, in words you already own. Sound, or not. Would you pour it again. 8020 move: open one bottle you already like, write the three lines, and buy that shape again before you buy a score.

Enough is a second glass

The speech will still be there next time. You do not have to attend. The full piece is wine tasting.