Wine tasting class

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Yes, we had our wine testing class last night! This wine tasting class is part of the "Soil, Terroir and Mediterranean Colonization" project I briefly discussed in my previous post, titled "Arcangelo Michele" (Saturday, September 29th, 2012).

Basically, for this soil project, we worked in two or three people per group. The two areas are the Jesi terroir and Metalica (see the map below). The main objective of this project is to identify types, characteristics and parent materials that made the soil and how the differences within these categories together with climate, topography, etc which in turn affect how the wines on both areas taste differently. So while travelling and collecting soil samples, we too, bought around 16 bottles of wines (two bottles per each kind) produced from the same vineyards where we collected the soil samples. And FYI, some of these wine are rated the best wines in Marche Region.

Metalica is right on the red A-mark.
Jesi is located in the north east of Metalica (or west of Ancona).

So what we learnt from our Sommelier (wine professional ) Alesandro are how to differentiate the color of the wine, how to taste the wine and being able to identify it's smoothness, sweetness and/or bitterness taste, how to shake and smell the wine and many more. Below are some pictures of the wines we had for the wine testing class.
Everyone hopes to get an A. lol ;)