Two sheets in one PDF: a standard tasting note and a blind tasting version. A4 and Letter. No email, no sign-up, no watermark.
Print as many as you like, for yourself or for a tasting with friends. No attribution needed.
The structure is the one most tasters use: look, smell, taste, decide. Nothing proprietary, nothing you need a course to fill in.
Wine, producer, vintage, region, grape, alcohol, price and where you bought it, so you can find it again.
Clarity, intensity and colour, with a word bank printed on the sheet: lemon-green through amber for whites, purple through tawny for reds.
Intensity and development on a five-box scale, three ruled lines for the aromas, and the fourteen aroma families along the bottom.
Sweetness, acidity, tannin, body, alcohol and finish, each on its own scale. Then room to write what it actually tasted like.
A score out of ten, whether you'd buy it again, drink now or keep, and what you ate with it.
Second page. Same structure, but the label comes last: you taste, write your guess (grape, region, vintage, price), then reveal.
Most people who give up on tasting notes don't run out of space, they run out of words. Staring at an empty line is the hard part.
So the colours and the aroma families are printed on the sheet, in small type along the bottom of each section. You circle what fits and move on. After a dozen bottles you stop needing them.
No. The link downloads the PDF straight away. There's no form, no list, and nothing to unsubscribe from later.
Yes. Print as many copies as you want, for any purpose, commercial included. You don't need to credit me, though I won't stop you.
No. It follows the same look-smell-taste-conclude shape that every tasting method uses, but it isn't the WSET Systematic Approach and it won't teach you their exam format. If you're studying for a WSET qualification, use the grid they give you.
A4 if you're in Europe or most of the world, Letter if you're in the US or Canada. The content is identical; only the page size changes.
Not the PDF, but the sheet is built as a normal web page. Open the printable version in your browser and print from there, or save the page and change the HTML if you want your own fields.
For a tasting with friends, one per person per wine. Six people and four bottles means twenty-four sheets, worth knowing before you start the printer.
If you enjoy tasting wine, you may also like Drinklytics, a wine tasting app for keeping your own notes. Free on Android.