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There have been numerous double blind tests of wine that show an astonishing lack of difference based on price. The adjectives you use are also common in audiop

• athenot 8y ago
  Funny you should mention audio because I enjoy really good audio but on equipment that's often cheaper than run-of-the-mill equipment (and certainly way cheaper than the audiophile hype). Again it comes down to listening and savoring the differences, not the price tag. And a cheap extension cord is more than sufficient when it comes to speaker cables. ;)
• luminiferous 8y ago
  > Wine is probably the most extreme example as there's a heavy push to equate fancy (expensive) with tasty but very often the 2 don't correlate. I would say the poster you're replying to would agree. And while it's true that price is largely unrelated to quality for wine, in blind taste tests, professional sommeliers performing a blind taste test do significantly better than chance when it comes to determining grape variety and country of provenance.[1] Which is to say that there are subtle differences of flavor from wine to wine that are detectable. But again, this is far from saying that expensive wines are better than cheap wines. [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/17/think-wine-connoisseurship-is-nonsense-blind-tasting-data-suggest-otherwise https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/05/17/think-wi...