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It is not meaningless if you are using the exact same wine in both tests as the author points out.
by soofaloofa 13y ago
It is not meaningless if you are using the exact same wine in both tests as the author points out.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoKnowing that the liquid in front of you is wine, and seeing that it looks red, what is your probability that it is really red wine? Unless you have specific reasons to suspect foul play, your probability would be very very near 1 (certainty). Now, overcoming this near-certainty with our poorest senses of all, taste and smell, is quite difficult.
- fastball 13y agoExactly? The point is that the taste is all in your head. The point is that the quality of the wine does not seem to be objective, and neither are the descriptors used (oaky flavour, etc.)
- ryanmcbride 13y agoYou mean to say that taste is subjective? What's next? Music and Cinema?
- sp332 13y agoThe taste isn't all in your head. You're going to tell the difference between grape juice and 15% ABV wine! And over-oaked wine has a vanilla-like flavor that is pretty apparent. Some people like it and some don't, but that's a different question!
- barrkel 13y agoThe taste is not all in your head. I mean, it is subjective in the same sense that the sky being blue is a subjective thing. In other words, a philosophical debate over qualia. But if you ever had a wine-tasting dinner with a large company of people, with a ranked progression of wines, you would not doubt that certain qualities of wine are absolutely shared amongst almost everyone who drinks them.
- iandanforth 13y agoDone this. Totally false. A merlot in a cab bottle tastes like a cab and everyone who likes cab says how much they like that wine.
- vacri 13y agoI know a couple who weren't wrapped in either of their surnames, so when they got married, they changed it to something they both liked - Merlot. It works well as a surname, methinks.
- surement 13y agoFalse? People liking cabernet sauvignon does not imply that they cannot like a merlot in a cabernet sauvignon bottle.
- barrkel 13y agoOur experiences are different. You seem caught up with categorization. I'm fairly confident I couldn't tell a merlot from a cabernet, blind, from a glass. But that doesn't mean one wine doesn't taste nicer than another, or goes better with a particular dish. And that's what I was alluding to.
- jlgreco 13y agoIf the taste is in your head, then could we expect to see blindfolded people hopelessly unable to tell the difference between red wine and white?
- Gormo 13y agoAll taste is "all in your head"; it's definitionally subjective.
- superkamiguru 13y agothis reminds me of the science book I had as a kid. After reading it, I made blue waffles and my mom said they were the worst ones she ever tried. wasn't like i replaced water with food coloring