Dr Wes Pearson is a senior research scientist at the Australian Wine Research Institute in Adelaide. He holds a BSc in Wine Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia, a diploma in Applied Sensory and Consumer Science from the University of California Davis and a PhD from Charles Sturt University. He has worked in the sensory group at the AWRI since 2010 and has completed hundreds of sensory studies and authored over 25 research papers in that time. He is an alumnus of the Len Evans Tutorial and of Wine Australia’s Future Leaders program. He is also an accomplished winemaker, having made wine in Canada and Bordeaux, and currently makes wine under his Juxtaposed label in McLaren Vale, South Australia.