The Wine Tasting Journal is your essential companion for exploring and documenting the world of wine. Whether you’re a casual enthusiast or a dedicated wine lover, this journal helps you record, compare, and refine your tasting experiences with professional-quality tools.
This wine tasting journal is created in Scotland for people who want to pay closer attention to what they enjoy, with an emphasis on personal observation rather than rigid rules.
Inside, you’ll find 85 structured tasting scorecards suitable for a wide range of still wine styles, from fresh, aromatic whites and light-bodied reds to fuller, more structured wines shaped by ripeness, oak, or ageing. Each scorecard provides space to record essential details such as producer, grape variety, region, vintage, ABV, appearance, aroma, flavour impressions, structure, finish, and overall rating, alongside a single integrated flavour checklist made up of 44 named tick-box flavour prompts. These prompts allow you to quickly mark what stands out in the glass while building a clear visual record to sit alongside your written notes.
The journal includes two separate wine flavour wheel reference pages, designed to reflect the breadth of wine styles and winemaking approaches. One wheel focuses on fresh and fruit-forward wines, highlighting brightness, fruit character, and clarity. The second wheel supports more structured and developed wines, emphasising body, depth, oak influence, spice, and savoury elements. These wheels are intended as orientation tools rather than prescriptions, helping you identify dominant characteristics without imposing a single “correct” interpretation.
To support confidence and clarity, the journal also includes straightforward explanations of wine tasting concepts, covering topics such as appearance, aroma, palate, structure, finish, and the influence of temperature, glassware, food, and context. These explanations are practical and accessible, offering guidance without unnecessary technical detail.
Additional index and notes pages make it easy to track favourites, build wish lists, note gift ideas, and reflect on trends across styles, regions, and tasting situations. Whether used during vineyard visits, guided tastings, or relaxed evenings at home, the layout supports intentional tasting while remaining flexible and personal.
Created in Scotland and using British spelling throughout, this journal reflects a thoughtful wine culture while remaining suitable for recording wines from around the world. It is designed with balance in mind: structured enough to be useful, and open enough to stay personal.
This journal is part of The Tasting Journal Series, a growing collection of thoughtfully designed notebooks for whisky, gin, wine, beer, coffee, and other craft beverages and artisan foods.
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