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Fashion products are very overpriced compared to their quality, but in fashion you're intentionally overpaying for the bragging right of having too much disposa

by snorkel 13y ago

Fashion products are very overpriced compared to their quality, but in fashion you're intentionally overpaying for the bragging right of having too much disposable income. What's remarkable about wine is you're paying extra not for vanity or features (unless it's for a date or a gift) but for some added taste quality that is probably skewed by knowing the price of the bottle: your brain has the expectation that more expensive wine actually tastes better, so your paying for something that may not even be there, and yet wine drinkers seldom feel enough buyers remorse to stop buying expensive wines.

lmm 13y ago
>is you're paying extra not for vanity or features (unless it's for a date or a gift) When else would you get wine? I don't think I've ever bought wine that wasn't for a social occasion (except in college, but then I bought the cheapest stuff I could find).
- DanBC 13y ago
  > When else would you get wine? Some people like drinking it. They'll have a glass or two after a long day at work. But that probably means half a bottle of wine. This kind of long term, regular, drinking of not-excessive amounts is worrying, especially among women. They don't see it as harmful, when it probably is. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16000520 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16000520) > Hospital consultants in north-east England have reported seeing an "epidemic" in the number of people in their early 30s with alcoholic liver disease. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15129887 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15129887) - this article talks about units of alcohol. 1 unit of wine is 125 ml at 8% ABV. This is a tiny glass of weak wine. Most wine is at least 10% ABV, or stronger, and a normal glass would be 175 ml or 200 ml. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_chart.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_cha...) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20410378 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20410378) etc etc.

by snorkel 13y ago

lmm 13y ago

>is you're paying extra not for vanity or features (unless it's for a date or a gift) When else would you get wine? I don't think I've ever bought wine that wasn't for a social occasion (except in college, but then I bought the cheapest stuff I could find).

DanBC 13y ago
> When else would you get wine? Some people like drinking it. They'll have a glass or two after a long day at work. But that probably means half a bottle of wine. This kind of long term, regular, drinking of not-excessive amounts is worrying, especially among women. They don't see it as harmful, when it probably is. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16000520 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16000520) > Hospital consultants in north-east England have reported seeing an "epidemic" in the number of people in their early 30s with alcoholic liver disease. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15129887 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15129887) - this article talks about units of alcohol. 1 unit of wine is 125 ml at 8% ABV. This is a tiny glass of weak wine. Most wine is at least 10% ABV, or stronger, and a normal glass would be 175 ml or 200 ml. (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_chart.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Units_of_alcohol_cha...) (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20410378 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20410378) etc etc.