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The study that pushed that thought about wine tasting was looking at amateur enthusiasts, not professionals. The top folks can identify, in all common cases, th
by zaphod12 5y ago
The study that pushed that thought about wine tasting was looking at amateur enthusiasts, not professionals. The top folks can identify, in all common cases, the vineyard that a wine has come from. Some aspects of this are surprisingly straightforward to learn. Smell is an incredibly powerful sense when you train it, but most of us don't. It is not pseudoscience, though you can have a pretty solid debate about whether it's truly a useful skill or not.
- zimpenfish 5y agoHaven't several blind taste tests been done with professional sommeliers where they've failed to pick the "good" wine against the "bad" reliably? Or they've been given the same wine several times and given it different ratings each time?
- ncmncm 5y agoIndeed, even failed to distinguish white from red.