{"id":4129,"date":"2025-06-04T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.lenez.com\/users-guide-le-nez-du-vin\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:46:07","slug":"users-guide-le-nez-du-vin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lenez.com\/en\/users-guide-le-nez-du-vin\/","title":{"rendered":"User\u2019s guide – Le Nez du Vin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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User’s guide<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Practice makes perfect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Start your sensory journey with a game. Choose a vial at random, without looking at the name of the aroma. Smell the vial and\/or the cap. You will detect a scent, but can you identify it? That\u2019s more difficult. It may bring to mind memories from the distant or more recent past or evoke certain emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the images conjured up by the aroma don\u2019t allow you to name it (though the word may be on the tip of your tongue!), try to identify which family it belongs to: fruity, floral, vegetal, woody, spicy, animal or toasty? This exploration can also be done in a group: discussions around the perception of scents are an enjoyable way to share the experience and delve into your memories. As you listen to each other, you may find the right answer. But be careful not to let yourself be influenced!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then look at the number on the vial and find it on the list of aromas. Now that you see the name of the aromatic note, of course it\u2019s obvious: you knew it! Repeat the exercise with another vial. Practise this way every day with up to ten vials, making sure to include the ones you didn\u2019t manage to recognise the previous time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will develop your olfactory memory. In just a few weeks, you\u2019ll be able to identify and, above all, name these aromas, precious clues to the wines you\u2019ll taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out more, follow the advice and tasting protocols in Le Nez du Vin<\/em> books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rising to the challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In October 1980, a few months before the launch of Le Nez du Vin<\/em><\/a>, Jean Lenoir was selected to compete against the British in the second edition of the \u2018UK\u2013France Wine Challenge\u2019 organised by Le Figaro and The Sunday Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finishing sixth out of 30 amateur competitors taking part in the final, he had to answer the following questions in 90 minutes (and train for years!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n