Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert

This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to causally depend on cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of wine experience,...

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Main Authors: Fabbris, Luigi, Piscitelli, Alfonso
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2022
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description This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to causally depend on cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of wine experience, on sensorial skills relevant for wine assessment and on wine consumption-related personality aspects. Our work consisted in measuring and analysing the relationships between the self-assessment of the ability to wine assessment given by a convenience sample of consumers and the qualification of their consumption experience and training (ranging from “simple” consumer to producer/seller to professional sommeliers), their sensorial (olfactory, flavour) skills and enogastronomic culture. Wine culture is defined as the capacity to harmonise wine and food and conceive wine as a nutritional, social and health-related means. The analysed data refer to a tasting experiment held as a social activity during a scientific meeting in Pescara, Italy, in 2018. The sample of wine assessors who filled in the evaluation questionnaire included both meeting participants and people belonging to AIS-Abruzzo, the regional association of chartered sommeliers. The data collected at wine tasters showed that there were strong relationships between the self-evaluation as wine expert and the consumption experience, the assessment skills, and the wine consumption “culture”. The relationships differed according to age, activity and length of wine consumption experience of the assessors.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-834992022-06-02T04:32:28Z Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert Fabbris, Luigi Piscitelli, Alfonso Wine expert Wine consumption Sensorial skills Wine culture Multivariate analysis This paper analyses the characteristics of wine consumers that may qualify them as wine experts. The wine evaluation expertise of consumers, as measured by various degrees of self-perceived ability, is hypothesised to causally depend on cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics of wine experience, on sensorial skills relevant for wine assessment and on wine consumption-related personality aspects. Our work consisted in measuring and analysing the relationships between the self-assessment of the ability to wine assessment given by a convenience sample of consumers and the qualification of their consumption experience and training (ranging from “simple” consumer to producer/seller to professional sommeliers), their sensorial (olfactory, flavour) skills and enogastronomic culture. Wine culture is defined as the capacity to harmonise wine and food and conceive wine as a nutritional, social and health-related means. The analysed data refer to a tasting experiment held as a social activity during a scientific meeting in Pescara, Italy, in 2018. The sample of wine assessors who filled in the evaluation questionnaire included both meeting participants and people belonging to AIS-Abruzzo, the regional association of chartered sommeliers. The data collected at wine tasters showed that there were strong relationships between the self-evaluation as wine expert and the consumption experience, the assessment skills, and the wine consumption “culture”. The relationships differed according to age, activity and length of wine consumption experience of the assessors. 2022-06-02T04:32:27Z 2022-06-02T04:32:27Z 2022-06-01T12:20:33Z 2021 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788855184618_543 2704-5846 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56358 9788855184618 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/83499 eng Proceedings e report open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56358/1/26261.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.43 10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.43 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855184618 6 Florence open access
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Chapter Experience, sensorial skills and personality qualifying a wine consumer as an expert
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Wine consumption
Sensorial skills
Wine culture
Multivariate analysis
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Wine culture
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