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Given what I’ve learned about fraud in the wine world, the nature of individual taste perception, and the inflated value of wine... I’m sure it is entirely simi
by IntronExon 9y ago
Given what I’ve learned about fraud in the wine world, the nature of individual taste perception, and the inflated value of wine... I’m sure it is entirely similar.
Useful references: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_fraud https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_fraud
- briandear 9y agoThink wine is bad .. wait until you look at the olive oil business!
- IntronExon 9y agoOh yeah, the mafia is deep in that one too. The best advice I’ve gotten for olive oil, coffee, wine, beer, and chocolate is to satisfy your palette. If you like it, great! It doesn’t really matter if a group of “experts” disagrees, although it can be helpful to try a wide spectrum at first.
- rublev 9y agoI don't think it is. I don't give a flying fuck about coffee or food or wine or any of that shit, but I can genuinely taste differences in coffee. I'd be surprised if you couldn't. There's a little roaster in St Lawrence Market where I go and I pickup random bags of whatever coffees for fun, and they are extremely different. Wine I've never been able to discern. I don't think coffee is in the same league at all.
- Canadauni 9y agoIn contrast coffee in general is vastly underpriced. In a shop you are lonely going to pay a premium but beans are generally produced by an underpaid labour market that allows for coffee to maintain such a low value.
- IntronExon 9y agoSo, it’s like most clothing, and consumer electronics, jewelry, and so on?