More Hope for the Palate
I’m a little obsessed with the ability (or lack of) to discern flavors in wine. Witness several previous posts including this previous post on palate.
That’s one reason I was so happy to stumble upon this article on tasting in The San Francisco Chronicle.
Other reasons I was glad to find it:
*I’ve had that little tidbit of information about 25 % of the population being supertasters floating around in the wrinkles of my brain. Just couldn’t remember where it came from. Thank you, Linda Bartoshuk. I also thought more women were hypertasters, but again, did not have the evidence to back me up. Now I do.
*I also now have a way to determine what kind of taster I am, if I can only find the tool:
from the article: Her suggested method is to swab the front of your tongue with food coloring and then press a plastic (paper gets messy, apparently) ring-binder reinforcer on to it. If you can count more than 25 colored spots on the ring, you are a supertaster, apparently.
*To make this discovery even more appropriate, it was written by my favorite wine guru: Jancis Robinson. It seems there are some out there who are saying she is tooting her own horn by mentioning her supertaster status. But Jancis thinks it would help her relate to readers more to fall in the normal taster category. She doesn’t even want the hyper status.
Jancis, you can pass along some taste buds to me.
palate, hypertaster, Jancis Robinson, Linda Bartoshuk
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