« In Passing #65 | Main | “The question is not whether we will have a surveillance state in the years to come, but what sort of state we will have.” »
June 10, 2013
Wine tasting is bullshit.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 10, 2013 10:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
"Has a taste more of paint thinner than of paint remover, with strong overtones of moldy cranberries with a dash of cheap brewers yeast."
Posted by: Alan Kellogg at June 10, 2013 11:21 AM
The post is about 80% dupe, so i will dupe my comments:
The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
http://www.amazon.com/Billionaires-Vinegar-Mystery-Worlds-Expensive/dp/0307338789
The wine market is open call for fraudsters.
Posted by: Fat Man at June 10, 2013 1:23 PM
One of my favorite episode's of a great television series "Northern Exposure" was episode 12 0f Season Four. Shelly breaks one of Maurice's very expensive old bottles of wine. Eve shows her how to fix it by doctoring cheap table wine. They add a pinch of peat moss to give it "earthy overtones".
Posted by: Fat Man at June 10, 2013 1:25 PM
What's the word? THUNDERBIRD.
a buck-five, come alive.
If it don't have a screw cap, it ain't worth shit.
Posted by: chasmatic at June 10, 2013 5:05 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who. Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:17 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who.
Or Miles and Chet or Winton.
Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:20 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who.
Or Miles and Chet or Winton and Freddie
Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:20 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who.
Or Miles and Chet or Winton and Freddie
Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:20 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who.
Or Miles and Chet or Winton.
Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Terrance, this is simple stuff.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:22 PM
If you can't identify the differences between well made wines, I suspect you can't tell the difference between the Beatles, Stones, and Who.
Or Miles and Chet or Winton.
Or, more simply, salt and pepper.
Terrance, this is simple stuff.
Posted by: steph at June 10, 2013 7:22 PM
steph, it may distress you to read this, but double-blind tests have shown many "expert" wine opinions to be, well, BS. Do you recall when French wines lost to California wines in double-blind taste tests?
There is certainly a big difference between fine wine and cheap jug wine. But the serious lesson is to stop revering the experts and drink what pleases your palate.
The debunking of "golden ears" audiophile experts was even more devastating, though, when Stereo Review used double-blind tests to show that these experts could not tell the difference between an ordinary CD player and a $2000 model aimed at naive-but-wealthy buyers.
Posted by: pst314 at June 11, 2013 7:24 AM