[HN Gopher] An aroma picker for the Le Nez du Vin game
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       An aroma picker for the Le Nez du Vin game
        
       Author : rcarmo
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-09-12 07:16 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | pigsmedallion wrote:
       | Fun project! This reminds me of the game the main character in
       | Drops of God plays. Wonderful TV show if you're into wine (think
       | Queen's Gambit meets Wine)
        
       | fancyfredbot wrote:
       | This game is fantastic, it's alarming to realise how dependent we
       | are on context to identify aromas. You can try one of the scents
       | and be entirely unable to identify it, then someone tells you
       | what it is and suddenly it seems blindingly obvious!
        
       | fsckboy wrote:
       | Le Nez du Vin (french) means in english, "the wine nose" though
       | perhaps "a nose for wine" might be more in the spirit of what
       | it's saying. I had some difficulting understanding what this
       | thing is precisely.
       | 
       | Just as an aside, I have a lot of years of experience with wine,
       | tasting, purchasing, drinking, traveling around europe, etc. And
       | I've never understood focusing beginners on this scent stuff,
       | like Gary Vaynerchuk has that video with dozens of pots of jam. I
       | really enjoy wine, but I've never "cared" whether I get a note of
       | persimmon vs apricot. I like fruit notes, I prefer wines that
       | show fruit notes, and tasting persimmon side-by-side to apricot,
       | yeah, I wouldn't mind have the vocabulary on the tip of my
       | tongue, but does it actually make a difference to my enjoyment?
       | not really.
       | 
       | There is an exception, and I'm very interested in it, but it's
       | highly technical and knowledge not that easy to come by. And that
       | is, it's easy to make a cheap champagne with notes of green
       | apple. It's much fancier to make a champagne without notes of
       | green apple. There's nothing wrong with liking green apple,
       | perfectually enjoyable, but intellectually knowing what goes into
       | the wine making to achieve certain flavors/aromas is definitely
       | interesting.
       | 
       | So, persimmon vs apricot might tell you something about the wine
       | varietal or viniculture that is interesting to know, but without
       | that extra information it's a bit of a "who cares" to me.
        
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