12 Aromas - Wine Faults Kit

FAQ

• What is the Le Nez du Vin Wine Faults Kit?

  The Wine Faults Kit contains 12 aroma vials representing the most common faults found in wine, along with an instructional manual, presented in a cloth-bound book. It enables you to identify and memorize faults like cork taint, oxidation, and reduction, helping you immediately know when you have a bad bottle.

• What are the 12 wine faults included in this kit?

  The kit includes 12 fault aromas: Vegetal, Rotten Apple, Vinegar, Glue, Soap, Sulfur, Rotten Egg, Onion, Cauliflower, Horse, Moldy-Earth, and Cork. These reference molecules are directly linked to the composition of affected wines.

• How does the Wine Faults Kit help wine professionals?

  The Faults Kit teaches you to recognize and memorize major wine faults, learn how these faults occur, understand how they can be avoided, and discover how they can be eradicated or their effects lessened. Professionals and enthusiasts use this guide as a test for faults within a vintage. It is required course material at many great enology schools including UC Davis.

• Is the Wine Faults Kit a companion to other products?

  Yes, the Wine Faults Kit is an essential companion to the 54 Aroma Master Kit. While the Master Kit teaches you to identify positive wine aromas, the Faults Kit ensures you can immediately detect when something is wrong with a wine.