Categorized napping, a sensometric tool for food and beverage industry. An application to a hall test session

Abstract

Sensory analysis is the standard analysis of foods made with the senses. Under the name of sensometrics regroup statistical methods address to this type of data. An important application area of sensory analysis is the wine industry. The companies are beginning to see the potential of sensory analysis and they are organizing more hall test sessions every passing day to learn about their products and use these results to improve their production and marketing. However, yet these m thods are not used very much because of their little knowledge between wine industry companies.