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Scientists: We took a bunch of people who claim they can tell red wine from white wine based on taste, and successfully fooled most of them with food coloring.
by nimih 6y ago
Scientists: We took a bunch of people who claim they can tell red wine from white wine based on taste, and successfully fooled most of them with food coloring.
Internet commenter reading the study: I can definitely tell red wine from white wine based on taste.
- mkl95 6y agoAny Spanish person who claims they cannot tell red from white wine is probably a teetotaller. However you can buy extremely good wine for a few € here, which leads me to think these people may have been served some watered down stuff for budget reasons.
- gameswithgo 6y agoUntil you do a blind taste test on yourself, you don't know that you can tell.
- pyramidal 6y agoGwern is that you? (Just kidding. I know he doesn't have a monopoly over blind/randomized self-tests.)
- gwern 6y agoTo be fair, I did do a blind taste-test indicating I can tell the difference between mineral water brands: https://www.gwern.net/Tea#water-experiment https://www.gwern.net/Tea#water-experiment (Spoiler: they all taste bad or indifferent, and Evian tasted the worst.)
- dagw 6y agoThe span of 'red' and 'white' wines is pretty massive. I don't find it too hard to believe that if you took a robust, heavily oaked and acidic white (perhaps with some skin maceration) and served it at room temperature with red food coloring that it could pass as a light bodied, low tannin, red from some grape you weren't familiar with. Obviously if you had a Barolo and a Chablis and asked people to pick out the white wine then people would easily manage.