Assessing wine quality using a decision tree

Abstract

Even though wine-drinkers generally agree that wines may be ranked by quality, wine-tasting is famously subjective. There have been many attempts to construct a more methodical approach to the assessment of wines. We propose a method of assessing wine quality using a decision tree, and test it against the wine-quality dataset from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository. Results are 60% in agreement with traditional assessment techniques.