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I thought that as well but my friends and I have done this a few times and most people can’t once you standardize temperature and move away from any desert wine
by dbish 5y ago
I thought that as well but my friends and I have done this a few times and most people can’t once you standardize temperature and move away from any desert wines (not a large sample size of course). Try it yourself and make sure not to let anything else get in the way (double blind where possible, all other factors exactly the same). I’ll also note that I’m not a complete noob, the group was in Napa on a wine tasting when we did this and most of us like wine and have done enough tasting and touring to know a little, maybe our pallets aren’t great, none of us are sommeliers or anywhere close :)
- calchris42 5y agoWas wondering how much temperature matters, and thinking probably a lot. Do I even know what room temperature white wine tastes like? Not really.
- niek_pas 5y agoUsually, it tastes pretty bad. Oh, and I’d recommend chilling your reds in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes before drinking. I often find true room-temperature reds to be on the warm side. I had a particularly bad experience with a “room-temperature” wine at a restaurant in Turin that had been sitting in the 35C heat…
- dbish 5y agoRoom temperature in wine is cellar temperature generally. That’s why you put reds in a wine fridge as well in many cases, just not as cold as white.