Neurosciences & Wines (French edition): How is our perception of wine influenced? Review of Oenologists Special Issue No. 153 S

Dive into the Heart of Neuroscience and Wine

How is our perception of wine shaped by our brain? This special issue of the Revue des Œnologues focuses on advancements in neuroscience and the implications of this field for understanding the sensations and emotions related to wine tasting.

Thanks to modern neuroimaging techniques, recent research shows that the perception of wine relies on a multi-sensory organization of the brain. This phenomenon involves complex interactions between the physical parameters of wine (aromas, color, texture) and the cognitive processes of tasters, whether they are amateurs or experts.

What Factors Influence the Taste of Wine?

The contributions gathered in this work highlight a crucial question: what truly determines the taste of wine? Is it merely a sum of its chemical and physical characteristics or the result of a brain process influenced by our experiences, memory, and environment?

Cognitive neuroscience thus reveals that our sensory perception of wine is shaped by complex mechanisms, involving olfactory memory, vision, expectations, and emotions.

A Unique Scientific and Technical Work

This special issue offers more than 20 synthesis articles to provide a state-of-the-art overview of knowledge in neuroscience and cognitive sciences applied to wine.

Editorials:

• The Revue des Œnologues and Neuroscience, a long history
• Mutual Enrichment between Oenology and Neuroscience
• Perspectives on the Interaction between Wine Sciences and Cognitive Sciences
• Towards a New Approach to Sensory Perception

Technical Articles:

• Wine, a Multi-Sensory Experience
• Impact of Olfaction on Brain Reorganization
• Interaction between Color and Taste Perception
• Influence of Music on Tasting
• Perception of Wines in Real Context - Results from the Living Lab
• Neuroscience and Wine Marketing - The “NeuroMix Marketing”
• Olfactory Learning in Wine Professionals
• Exploration of the Role of Memory and Knowledge in Tasting

Thanks to these contributions, this work highlights the impact of neuroscience on oenology and paves the way for new approaches in sensory analysis, wine marketing, and taste education.

Article Features

• Title: Neurosciences & Wines (French edition) - Revue des Œnologues HS No.153 S
• Language: French
• Publisher: Revue des Œnologues
• Publication Date: January 14, 2015
• Number of Articles: More than 20 synthesis articles
• Topics Covered: Neuroscience, tasting, wine perception, oenology, sensory marketing