A few weeks ago I was cooking dinner for a couple of couples at our house. I opened a fancy bottle of wine about an hour ahead of time, and I also had an $8 bot

A few weeks ago I was cooking dinner for a couple of couples at our house. I opened a fancy bottle of wine about an hour ahead of time, and I also had an $8 bottle left over from cooking breakfast the day before. (You'd think from all this that I'm some kind of chef, but it doesn't take much to throw a little wine on some mushrooms.) I had a couple of sleeves for wine bottles, so I decided to put them over the bottles and do a blind taste test. Of the 5 other people, 3 preferred the cheaper wine, 1 was neutral, and 1 preferred the more expensive one. You don't need wine sleeves-- we've used paper bags, or you can decant in a double-blind safe way. No one said science was easy, but someone's got to do it. ;-) You might even save yourself some money.