Wine tasters can't pick an expensive wine by taste alone because price is mostly related to marketing. There are some excellent cheap wines and no-so-great expe

Wine tasters can't pick an expensive wine by taste alone because price is mostly related to marketing. There are some excellent cheap wines and no-so-great expensive wines. Professional wine tasters are like human spectrometers. They can tell you each component of the wine (aromas, sugar, alcohol, tanins, etc...), using that and their knowledge, they can identify characteristics of grapes and vineyards, process, and defects. The audio equivalent would be a sound engineer, who can listen for bad mixing, noise and distorsion. Both work with producers to improve their products. Audiophiles have more in common with wine "connoisseurs", who have some knowledge but are sometimes influenced by marketing and the placebo effect and are mostly driven by enjoyment and sometimes social status.