As someone who drinks a decent amount of red wine, always trying new ones & properly decanting. This makes me curious how I would fare on a similar taste test.

As someone who drinks a decent amount of red wine, always trying new ones & properly decanting. This makes me curious how I would fare on a similar taste test. I wonder if many casual wine drinkers just pour straight from the bottle? If so, it would lead to me believe they would have a hard time appreciating more expensive/better wines. Starting out I had a decoy red followed by a duckhorn red. I disliked the latter, but now I’m less of a noob I prefer the latter (if decanted) Personally, I find there are several wines around $10 that I enjoy (J lohr merlot is one) but around ~$20-60 is the sweet spot for my fav wines (E.g juggernaut Cabernet,pahlmeyer Jayson, caymus, etc). I have tried stuff in the hundreds & have enjoyed some but not all, and none yet have solidly eclipsed the previously mentioned to make it $ for $ worth it. I can’t imagine drinking Austin Hope and a box red, then rating the latter as better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯