6 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »
Here's an infographic that should help anyone who loves getting drunk drinking wine, but can't tell a pinot from a merlot from 7-Eleven's new cab sav.
For his class, Visualizing the Five Senses, Nyu grad student Carl Tashian amassed the descriptive words used in over 5,000 wine reviews, published in one Australian wine magazine in the course of five years. Then he split those according to the wine variety--whites, reds, and variations thereof--and then charted what words pop up most often for each one. What results is a pretty nifty set of graphs displaying the typical flavor profiles of various wines. So cab savs, as you can see above, are pretty heavy on the oak. Pinot noirs, by contrast, tend to be a bit fruitier and more flavorful--which explains their booming popularity. Obviously, any wine nerd will know all this stuff already--but it's a pretty great tool for neophytes.
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- Cliff Kuang
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