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And since people can't tell most wines apart, what's the point? http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html http:
by valuearb 9y ago
And since people can't tell most wines apart, what's the point?
http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamous_study_on_wine_tasting.html http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamo...
Most people can't tell a red from a white by taste.
- mmmpop 9y agoThe difference in pinot noir and say, cabernet sauv is like night and day, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
- shallot_router 9y agoSure, but they probably meant "would an average person be able to differentiate TJ Rodgers Pinot Noir from another high quality winery's Pinot Noir"?
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- NoPiece 9y agoMost people could differentiate them, but wouldn't be able to identify the higher quality wine.
- barrkel 9y agoBurgundy pinot vs new world pinot? If they're a fan, they'd have little trouble spotting the Burgundy.
- NoPiece 9y agoI agree, but the parent said average person, so I was thinking of someone less experienced.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoThis is exactly the problem; studies are done where random person who has a glass now and then can't tell food-coloring altered white from red, readers see "nobody can tell wines apart".
- mmmpop 9y agoWell, the last statement doesn't imply that: > Most people can't tell a red from a white by taste. I most certainly can! But I do agree, sometimes it's hard to judge the cheap wine vs the expensive ones, but we're talking $25 bottle to a $40 bottle. I don't have a lot of difficulty picking out the $8 vs the $25 from purely anecdotal experience. I am determined to double-blind myself at some point though.
- castis 9y agoThere will always be a market for a high quality version of whatever you can think of.
- jcoffland 9y agobut not at any price.
- Godel_unicode 9y agoYou think there's not a race to the top in the wine-as-status-symbol market? https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/paulet+rsrv+louis+xvi+extra+vieilles+fine+champagne+cognac+france/0 https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/paulet+rsrv+louis+xvi+ext...
- malchow 9y agoI think this is a common misconception. Various tests have asked ordinary people to determine what wine is expensive and what isn't. They can't. (Also, if people know a wine is expensive, they don't enjoy it more. They enjoy it less. At least according to one well controlled study: http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Vol.3-No.1-2008-Evidence-from-a-Large-Sample-of-Blind-Tastings.pdf http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...) That doesn't mean that very fine distinctions between wines cannot be independently and blindly detected by both experts and amateurs.
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoPrices are set at the margin [1]. Most people can't differentiate high-quality and low-quality wines. But some can. They are on the margin and will set prices. As an anecdote, I can blindly identify with pricing in respect of certain regions and grapes, e.g. Valpolicella, Amarone and the Cabernets. (That is to say, I will blindly prefer the higher-priced bottles over lower-priced ones.) I am willing to pay a premium for those. With other grapes, e.g. Pinot Noir, my tastes don't seem to correlate with prices. (This is also true, with me, for whiskey and absinthe.) [1] http://optionalreading.blogspot.com/2012/12/laws-of-price-prices-are-set-at-margin.html http://optionalreading.blogspot.com/2012/12/laws-of-price-pr...