Confused when reading a wine list? Maybe this garden will help

If you've ever been confused by the tasting notes on a wine list, you're not alone.

Tasmanian winery owner Rebecca Duffy discovered that people who visited her winery wanted to know more about the wine they were drinking and how to taste the advertised notes.< /p>

"We were looking for something in addition to our cellar door experience that was educational but also self-guided," she said.

So how do you demystify the somewhat alienating world of wine?

Mrs. Duffy has planted a garden.

A woman smiling at the camera in front of fruit trees.Rebecca Duffy, owner of the vineyard, says consumers want to know more about the wine they are trying. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)

"We created a sensory garden to represent the different aromas, flavors and textures found in wine," he said. -she declared.

" For example, in the pinot garden, there are strawberries, there are blueberries and raspberries, and rhubarb is also planted there.< /p>

"You can walk around the garden, taste the different fruits and see how it translates to the different characters you find in the wine."

The garden of Holm Oak Vineyard in the Tamar Valley is divided into different wines made on site: riesling, chardonnay, pinot noi r, cabernet, syrah, sauvignon blanc and pinot gris.

Close up of basil plant and sign in one potConsumers can touch and taste herbs while drinking a glass of wine. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)

Visitors can also touch the foliage in the texture garden to get a sense of how the plants affect the wine.

"You will get more texture rough with a bigger red wine, as opposed to the more velvety texture you might get with chardonnay or sparkling,” Duffy said.

red signs in front of strawberries growing in the floorStrawberry notes are very present in Tasmanian sparkling wine. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)
From California to Tasmania

Ms. Duffy won the state award for rural women in 2016 and used the money from the fellowship to research how cellar doors around the world have added new experiences for customers.

A similar project at a California vineyard inspired her to venture into the garden, which took eight years to establish.

"My husband likes to grow things and I like to make things like preserves so a garden was...

Confused when reading a wine list? Maybe this garden will help

If you've ever been confused by the tasting notes on a wine list, you're not alone.

Tasmanian winery owner Rebecca Duffy discovered that people who visited her winery wanted to know more about the wine they were drinking and how to taste the advertised notes.< /p>

"We were looking for something in addition to our cellar door experience that was educational but also self-guided," she said.

So how do you demystify the somewhat alienating world of wine?

Mrs. Duffy has planted a garden.

A woman smiling at the camera in front of fruit trees.Rebecca Duffy, owner of the vineyard, says consumers want to know more about the wine they are trying. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)

"We created a sensory garden to represent the different aromas, flavors and textures found in wine," he said. -she declared.

" For example, in the pinot garden, there are strawberries, there are blueberries and raspberries, and rhubarb is also planted there.< /p>

"You can walk around the garden, taste the different fruits and see how it translates to the different characters you find in the wine."

The garden of Holm Oak Vineyard in the Tamar Valley is divided into different wines made on site: riesling, chardonnay, pinot noi r, cabernet, syrah, sauvignon blanc and pinot gris.

Close up of basil plant and sign in one potConsumers can touch and taste herbs while drinking a glass of wine. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)

Visitors can also touch the foliage in the texture garden to get a sense of how the plants affect the wine.

"You will get more texture rough with a bigger red wine, as opposed to the more velvety texture you might get with chardonnay or sparkling,” Duffy said.

red signs in front of strawberries growing in the floorStrawberry notes are very present in Tasmanian sparkling wine. (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)
From California to Tasmania

Ms. Duffy won the state award for rural women in 2016 and used the money from the fellowship to research how cellar doors around the world have added new experiences for customers.

A similar project at a California vineyard inspired her to venture into the garden, which took eight years to establish.

"My husband likes to grow things and I like to make things like preserves so a garden was...

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