Free wine scoring sheet
In my wine tasting rounds, I’ve often used wine-scoring sheets that were supplied by the proprietor of a tasting room or something a friend found on the Internet. I had often scoured the Internet searching for a tasting sheet that delivered a fairly comprehensive approach to scoring wine, and didn’t just have six circles and a dozen straight lines on it. I often came up empty-handed.
So I decided to develop my own. And then I tested and tweaked it with the help of a group of friends that I regularly taste wine with. Since I loaded it onto my website a number of weeks ago, hardly a day goes by that someone else isn’t searching for a wine scoring sheet and finds mine.
Based on the Davis 20-point scale, the Wine Scoring Sheet is meant to be used primarily for comparative blind tastings. It will serve both individuals and groups with its two-page approach. The first page is designed so that each individual in a group can score up to 7 wines. The second page allows a 12-person group to rank all wines based on the results that are tallied on the first page. There’s even room for adding your own notes.
Using the Wine Scoring Sheet, a typical blind tasting follows these 7 tasting criteria:
• Appearance
• Aroma
• Balance
• Body/Texture
• Taste/Flavor
• Finish
• Overall Quality
The Wine Scoring Sheet also includes a third page that lists a simple set of instructions for its use.
So if searching around the ‘net for a simple-to-use wine scoring sheet has left a bad taste in your mouth, consider trying the winehiker’s free Wine Scoring Sheet. If you like using it, please add your comments to this post - I’d love to read them.
~winehiker
