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>> experienced, respected tasters can't tell a red from a white This is ridiculous. There is no way this is true. I'm an idiot and I can tell the difference bl
by icelancer 9y ago
>> experienced, respected tasters can't tell a red from a white
This is ridiculous. There is no way this is true. I'm an idiot and I can tell the difference blindly between a red and a white.
- OscarCunningham 9y agoIIRC the experiment tricked them by colouring the whites red and vice versa. So even if you could tell the difference you might not be so confident that you would know a trick was being played on you.
- mercer 9y agoIf that's what the experiment was, then it seems less evidence of people being able to taste the difference, and more evidence of how our visual perception might be able to mess with our sense of taste.
- Turing_Machine 9y agoThis is in fact a well-known effect. Give people green lollipops and a substantial percentage will describe the flavor as "lime", even if it's actually cherry. Give people red lollipops and a substantial percentage will describe the flavor as "cherry", even if it's actually lime. But that doesn't mean that lime and cherry actually taste the same.
- psergeant 9y agoThe other way this is done is by using a black glass: https://www.wineware.co.uk/iso-type-black-wine-tasting-glasses-215cl-set-of-6-blind-wine-tastings https://www.wineware.co.uk/iso-type-black-wine-tasting-glass...
- jerrre 9y agowhen they're the same temperature?
- MiddleEndian 9y agoIt really depends on the wine as said earlier. I know pretty much nothing about wine and I could tell you the difference between a couple white wines because some are noticeably sweet (moscato, riesling) compared to others (sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio). I could id the first category vs the second, while somebody into wine presumably would have more depth.
- spacehome 9y agoI've done (literally) blind taste testing. I could do it, because I knew what was being testing, but it was trickier than I anticipated. One member of my group got a couple guesses wrong. It's not such a ridiculous thing that even an expert (whose expectations have been betrayed by red food coloring in a white wine) might stumble.