Blind Champagne Tasting

The article relating to this dataset was published in the journal Flavour 2013, 2:25 doi:10.1186/2044-7248-2-25 Participants Fifteen participants gave their informed consent prior to taking part in the tasting. Their median age was 30 years (ranging from 21 to over 60) and 11 were male. The studies have been approved by the Central University Research Ethics Committee of the University of Oxford and are therefore in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration. The whole sample had been involved in professional activities related to wine or spirits. To assess Champagne expertise, in particular, the participants were given the following questions: ‘How would you rate your experience with Champagne? Novice, intermediate, or expert’ and ‘Is your professional activity related to Champagne? Yes, no, please specify’. We chose to avoid mixing kinds of expertise because perceptions of wine are known to differ among different kinds of experts. For instance, experts included critics but importantly did not include any wine-makers or sommeliers. As such, there were four expert Champagne tasters who included wine merchants, well-known Champagne critics/journalists/writers specializing in champagne, and trade ambassadors for a Champagne house. There were six intermediate Champagne tasters, which included wine and spirit trade retailers, writers/journalists for food and wine columns, and sales representatives for Champagne houses. Finally, there were five self-assessed novice Champagne tasters, who included wine brand owners, people who worked for a Champagne house, wine trade, and spirit ambassadors who generally drank Champagne monthly. Stimuli The seven sparkling wines used in the present study consisted of six Champagnes: Mumm de Verzenay, Mumm Rosé, Mumm Vintage 2004, Perrier-Jouët Blason Rosé, Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque 2004, Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque Blanc de Blancs 2002, and a Ridgeview Bloomsbury Non-Vintage Sparkling wine from Sussex (UK) - the only sparkling wine not made in Champagne but made of the same grape varieties and using the same method. These wines were chosen to provide a range from 0 to 100% Chardonnay grapes.本数据集相关论文发表于《Flavour》期刊2013年第2卷第25页，DOI为10.1186/2044-7248-2-25。 参与者：15名参与者在参与本次品鉴实验前均签署了书面知情同意书。他们的年龄中位数为30岁，年龄跨度为21岁至60岁以上，其中11名为男性。本研究已通过牛津大学中央大学研究伦理委员会审批，符合《赫尔辛基宣言》的相关伦理要求。所有参与者均从事与葡萄酒或烈酒相关的职业。 为评估参与者的香槟品鉴专业能力，我们向参与者提出了如下问题：「你如何评价自身的香槟品鉴经验？选项为新手、进阶或专家」以及「你的职业是否与香槟相关？请选择是/否，并予以说明」。我们选择避免混杂不同类别的专业背景，因为已有研究表明，不同领域的专家对葡萄酒的感知存在显著差异。例如，本次专家群体仅纳入葡萄酒评论家，未包含任何葡萄酒酿造者或侍酒师。据此，参与者被分为三类：4名香槟品鉴专家，涵盖香槟酒商、专注香槟领域的知名评论家/记者/专栏作家以及香槟品牌贸易大使；6名进阶香槟品鉴者，涵盖葡萄酒与烈酒贸易零售商、食品葡萄酒专栏作家/记者以及香槟品牌销售代表；最终5名自评新手香槟品鉴者，涵盖葡萄酒品牌所有者、香槟品牌从业人员、葡萄酒贸易从业者以及每月饮用香槟的烈酒大使。 品鉴酒样：本研究共使用7款起泡葡萄酒，其中6款为香槟产区酿造的香槟：Mumm de Verzenay、Mumm Rosé、Mumm Vintage 2004、Perrier-Jouët Blason Rosé、Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque 2004、Perrier-Jouët Belle Epoque Blanc de Blancs 2002，以及一款来自英国萨塞克斯郡的Ridgeview Bloomsbury无年份起泡葡萄酒——这是本次研究中唯一一款非香槟产区酿造，但采用相同葡萄品种与酿造工艺的起泡酒。我们选择上述酒样的目的是覆盖霞多丽（Chardonnay）葡萄含量从0%至100%的梯度区间。