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TastingMaster is software you need to host wine tastings like they’ve never been done before.
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- Requirements
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PC with Windows to set up a tasting party
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Internet connection to upload scores and participate in the TastingMaster Community
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Printer to print out party kit items such as tasting guides, glass name tags and reports
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Good friends and good wine to have fun!
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- Features
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- Easy to enter information
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Tasters, wines, and tastings are stored in a data base; drop-down text boxes and many prompts help you enter information quickly and easily
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The data base makes it easy to retrieve and modify information for reports or to use in new tastings
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- Extensive help files
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Keystroke demos show how to perform common functions
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Peter Palate tips appear as “mouse-overs” while you use TastingMaster
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Wizards assist with entering Tasters, Tastables, and Tastings
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Many guides and tutorials are available to review or print (e.g., How to Taste Wine, How to Read a Wine Label, and a Wine Tasting Party Checklist)
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- Variety of tasting scales
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12 commonly used scales, from easy to advanced (many attributes)
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Printed forms for each scale so each taster can score and comment
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- Easy to send invitations and reports
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Include RSVP, maps, and personalized message in your invitation
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Send the tasting report to tasters and/or anyone else in your address book
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Uses your current email program
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- Tasting Kit
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Print wine glass rings with taster names
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Print a colorful “Wine Tasting Tri-fold”, which includes the wines you are tasting, plus a guide for tasting and some helpful words
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These items come directly from TastingMaster, using tasters and wines you have specified for the event (or print blank ones to fill in yourself)
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“How to Taste Wine” Video, intended to view with tasters before they start tasting
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- Access to the TastingMaster community
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Upload your tasting scores and tasting notes to combine those in the community
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Download wines you find interesting—from the community to your Wine List
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- Low to high tech ways to input and display information
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If you are comfortable with printed forms with no computer access during the tasting, it’s there
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If you want to show everyone’s scores and tasting notes on a large screen TV, it’s there
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If you want to use passwords to secure everyone’s private scores and comments, it’s there
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- Extensive reporting
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In addition to Tasting Reports, you can create MANY more types of reports from the data base
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Use reports to find wines or tasters matching your search criteria
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- Novice to expert appeal
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Intended for use in home tasting parties
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A great solution for wine tasting clubs (e.g., keep records, easily email results, compare)
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Easily extended to professional use
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- New kind of personal wine journal
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This one doesn’t fill up!—You use it forever!
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Easy view history of all of the wines you have tasted
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- FUN — is that a feature? You bet it is
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Add a bit of technology to your (already fun) party and it will increase the participation, enjoyment, education, and professionalism!
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What is in the future?
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Beer, chocolate, olive oil tasting parties, multiple languages — even more fun!
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- Approach
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Name your event, pick a date and decide whom to invite (enter the names of tasters or select them from those who have attended a previous party)
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Send email invitations or print invitations to mail directly from TastingMaster
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Enter the wines you are tasting or select from ones used at previous parties
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Choose one of the provided scoring scales (e.g., rate 1-5, 5 stars, 100 points, etc.)
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Have a great time at your party; have tasters record scores and notes onto printed forms or directly into the computer entry screen
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View | Print | Email the results to the attendees. Optionally, send us your results and become part of the TastingMaster community
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- Beginners
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TastingMaster is easy to install and easy to use
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You can get started immediately
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Wizards guide you through the process
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You can automatically create and send invitations and tasting results
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- Experts
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Select the tasting scale that is right for your event from easy to advanced, including several multi–attribute scales
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Use TastingMaster with your wine tasting club: keep history from all your club events; create reports by wine, by tasting scale and by taster to view exactly what you want
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Share and compare your results with the TastingMaster community
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Use advanced data management tools
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Customize your view using one of several visual styles
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- Tutorials
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In order to make the product even easier to use, TastingMaster Wine Tasting Edition includes help every place you need it. If you get lost or just need to know what to do on one of our screens, just ask for help.
In order to give you a look, a complete version of the help the comes with the product is available online here.
We also provide a set of task–oriented tutorials. Each tutorial takes a specific task like creating a tasting, adding tasters or tastables, sending invitations, starting your tasting, designing your tasting report and provides a keystroke by keystroke demo of how to accomplish your objective.
Look at the complete list here and take a peek. While they won’t do you a lot of good without the product, you can get the feel for how easy the Wine Tasting Edition is to use.
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