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Quality distinctions are a bit hard to talk about, being qualitative. How do you differentiate between changing tastes/moods or inconsistent wineries? The comp
by likpok 9y ago
Quality distinctions are a bit hard to talk about, being qualitative. How do you differentiate between changing tastes/moods or inconsistent wineries?
The competition the economist article was about was judged (by them) purely in correctly identifying the grape and country of origin of the wine.
This is more resistant against noise, but only supports the idea that people can reliably identify wines — not that they can be graded independently. It certainly challenges the “wine judges can’t tell the difference between red and white” narrative.
- fenomas 9y agoSure, yeah. I mean naively, one would expect that some grapes or qualitative aspects can be reliably discerned, and others can't, and that research into the subject would give us some idea which is which, so that's the kind of thing I thought someone might know about. I mean, it may not all be bunk, but at any rate it seems fairly non-obvious which bits aren't. It seems like every study that asks "are wine tasters biased by X?" finds that they are.