GLOSSARY 词汇

direct sales                                                     a sale without intermediaries (in this case an importer)
boom                                                              substantial increase
write-up                                                          report
further                                                           a field in more distant places
case                                                              a box of usually 12 or 6 bottles
encouraging                                                  positive
wine                                                               tasting notes written comments on a wine
barrel                                                             large round wooden container used to store wine
tannin                                                            tannic acid
blackcurrant                                                  small edible black berry (fruit)
Priorat                                                           one of Spain’s wine producing areas (near Barcelona)
vineyard                                                        property where grapes are grown
soil                                                                 top layer of earth
slate                                                               type of soil influenced by slate rock content
yield                                                               amount/ quantity produced
Penedes                                                        one of Spain’s wine producing areas (near Barcelona)
imprint                                                            identifiable and identifying characteristics
to be cellared                                                 to be carefully stored (usually in a cellar)
plug-in                                                            small software programme
semblance                                                      appearance or resemblance, similarity
sweet                                                              one of the four basic tastes: e.g. sugar, cola drinks
sour                                                                one of the four basic tastes: e.g. lemons, vinegar
salty                                                                one of the four basic tastes: e.g. peanuts, anchovies
bitter                                                                one of the four basic tastes: e.g. strong coffee, beer
delivery                                                            transfer of goods
palate                                                              capacity to enjoy good food and drink
kit                                                                    set of articles
to deaden                                                        to become insensitive
to evolve                                                         to develop
astringent                                                        harsh
to overpower                                                    to dominate
guideline                                                          indication, rule
stew                                                                 meat cooked slowly in liquid
game                                                                wild animals and birds sometimes hunted for sport

COMPREHENSION EXERCISE 练习

1. What countries does Peter mainly sell to?
2. Why are there some countries he cannot sell to?
3. What type of people buy wine from the Net?
4. What does an introductory case consist of?
5. What are the advantages of an introductory case?
6. What do Peter’s “wine-tasting notes” consist of?
7. What are the peculiarities of the Priorat as far as wine growing is concerned?
8. What are the 3 factors that affect you when tasting wine?
9. What’s important to Peter about wines?
10. Ten years ago there was a movement towards _______ wine . Now there is a move
back to _______ styles of wine.
11. Is a good palate something you’re born with or something you learn?
12. How might a 1994 Priorat wine evolve in 18 months?
13. Do wines change with different foods?
14. Which of the following would be suitable to eat with a Priorat wine?
fruit, red meat, a thick stew, fish, duck, salad, desserts
 

ANSWERS 答案

1. European countries.
2. Because some countries do not allow direct sales of alcohol to individuals.
3. People who are genuinely interested in wines and interested in trying wines from
different regions.
4. Six different bottles of wine.
5. If you don’t like one particular type of wine, it’s not the end of the world.
6. He describes how the wine is made, the area it’s from, the grape varieties and how
long it’s been aged in what type of barrel.
7. They have a slate imprint, are rich, high alcohol levels, strong fruity aromas, and
tend to be “complex”.
8. The visual aspect, the aroma and the taste.
9. He likes the wines to be different, and to taste according to the region where it has
been made.
10. Ten years ago there was a movement towards standardised wine . Now there is a
move back to specific styles of wine.
11. Something you can learn.
12. It would become less astringent, less harsh, smoother and more rounded.
13. Yes.
14. Red meat, a thick stew, duck.

LESSON PLAN 教案

1. Have students ever bought anything via the Internet? What? What products can be
bought via the Internet? What could students imagine buying? Why? What could
they not imagine buying? Why not? For both the buyer and the seller on the
Internet: What are the advantages of working this way? What could be the risks
involved?

2. What countries / states are well-known for wine production? (e.g. France, Spain,
Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Argentina, Chile, California, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa...). Have students tasted wine from any of these countries
and if so, which? Do they like wine? What preferences do they have e.g. red, white,
sweet, dry...?

3. Go through glossary, checking for pronunciation and that meaning is clear.
Contextualise words if necessary.

4. Put each item of vocabulary on a separate piece of paper. Give each set of papers
to groups of two or three students. Play the interview and the students should try
and put the vocab items in the order that they hear them.

5. Go through the comprehension questions, predicting the answers where possible.

6. Play the interview again and students try to answer the questions. Repeat and
pause as/ where necessary.

7. List as many foods / drinks as students can for the 4 tastes: sweet, acid, salty,
bitter.

8. Group the following words according to “smell”, “taste”, “sight”:
mouth, nose, eyes, vision, colour, flavour, texture, lick, odour, swallow, look, bite,
glimpse, see, sniff, stare, tongue, sip, aroma, scent.

9. Let students try to explain any or all of the following in terms of smell, taste (not
always appropriate, I hope!) and sight:
a rose, dirty socks, a truck, the zoo, freshly-ironed sheets, Coca Cola, a coal mine, a
glass of water, the sea on a windy day, fresh coffee in the morning, a dairy farm, a
dry-cleaner’s, a fish market, the rubbish bin, bleach, a freshly-painted room, a
baby’s nappy. (Feel free to add to this!)
Encourage students to give as full descriptions as possible. Help them with
vocabulary as and when necessary.

10. For classes of adults only: you may like to take up a collection and buy a good
bottle of wine for students to comment on, or get them to bring in a bottle of their
favourite wine occasionally to taste and describe.

11. Students (in groups or pairs) decide on something they would like to buy via the
Internet. When they have decided what that is, they devise a form which would be
suitable for ordering the product or service and pass it to the next pair or group to
complete.
 

TRANSCRIPTION 文本

Peter If you asked me about the wines of Catalonia, that would be very difficult.

Specifically about the wines of Priorat it’s actually slightly easier, becausePriorat is a very special area. The area itself is limited basically to vineyards thatare grown on a special type of soil, which is a slate based soil. It gives very lowyields of grapes. What would be normal in the Penedes of five, six, even more,kilos of grapes per vine, you’d maybe get one, less than one kilo per vine in thePriorat. And so it tends to be a very concentrated grapes that give very richwines, quite high alcohol levels for the wines, with very strong fruity aromas,but also they tend to be really quite complex wines, which is why I thinkthey’ve been so successful internationally. Almost all have a sort of mineralkind of imprint to them. It’s very difficult to actually describe, and put yourfinger on, but, and it’s very easy just to say “Oh, they smell of slate” becausethey’re on slate soils and it’s not that simple, but it is true that all of the winesfrom that area, they’re all big wines, they’re all great for cellaring for a longtime, very powerful concentrations of taste and they all have this kind ofmineral imprint to them.

eV Do you think we’ll ever see a day when it’s possible to download our winetaster plug-in and get a reasonable semblance of what a wine is like?

Peter I’ve seen two things like this. One was an absolute joke, and another one, Ithink, was serious. Some people in Silicon Valley who’d been very active in theearly days of the web, also in biotechnology companies, so real computer whizkids, were developing a way to be able to transmit smell. Basically when youtaste a wine, you’re worried about three issues which is: the visual aspect ofthe wine, then the smell of it basically, and the mouth sensation, becauseactually there are only four tastes. You’ve got sweet, sour, salty and bitter, andthose are the only four tastes that the mouth can identify. Everything else is todo with aromas, and so, if you could transmit aromas across the Net then youcould give much better ideas. Currently it’s something that’s very difficult to getacross. The day when we can have a tap on the front next to the CD-Rom driveis a long way away.

eV Is that your secret project at the moment?

Peter It would make delivery much easier!

eV What’s important to you in a wine?

Peter Personally I like wines to taste different. I don’t like everything to taste thesame, so I look for variety, I look for... not always for complexity because youcan have very enjoyable wines that are not particularly complex, but justenjoyable on a very simple level. I think good winemaking, you don’t want...

you want the wine to be free from any obvious defects, and then I hope to findsomething new, something different. I think it’s important that wine shouldtaste different depending on where it’s made. I think climate, even very locally,can make an enormous difference to the kind of wines you can produce and toan extent the wine world is moving back to identifying very specific tastes fromspecific areas or specific styles of wine that maybe ten years ago there was amove to everybody making very standardised wines and I think when aChardonnay from California and one from Australia and one from South Africaand one from this part of Spain taste then same, I think that’s actually quitesad. I’m not saying that there isn’t a place for good quality, supermarket wine,but I think that wine should look to be different.

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