This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
There is a 4 day residential school which covers the practical components of the subject
This subject provides an introduction to the principles that underlie sensory assessment, particularly those relevant to taste, smell and mouthfeel. It includes the physiology and characteristics of the senses, the application of various sensory testing procedures, and the application of these principles to the sensory assessment of wine, grape juice and some wine faults.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences
This subject requires assumed basic statistical knowledge.
- The senses: contrasts of capabilities and physiology; the roles of flavour, odour, taste, texture and appearance.
- The senses of taste and smell: the sensations, receptors, and their characteristics and interaction, nasal and retronasal pathways, odorant-structure relationships, adaptation, hunger and ageing.
- Texture: texture types, texture terms and perceptions.
- Chemesthesis: receptor types, sensation types, sensitisation and adaptation.
- Appearance: principles of colour vision; attributes of appearance;
- Sensory assessment: analytic vs hedonic assessment, the role of training, principles of sensory response behaviour, the role of statistics, control of the sensory testing environment.
- Sensory testing: difference tests, measurement of sensory thresholds, scaling and ranking.
- Application of sensory principles to wine assessment, the basic tastes, taste interactions, influence of ethanol content, comparison of major wine types, bitterness and astringency, sensory thresholds, influence of wine pH and ageing.
- Role of odour: interaction of taste and smell, influence of grape variety, introduction to regional effects.
- Introduction to wine judging, the Australian wine show system, judging wines.
This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
There is a 4 day residential school which covers the practical components of the subject
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.