To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (745784 ) 10/11/2013 9:35:21 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Thanks, but I don't really like rotten grape juice aka wine. I doubt anyone really does. I think its all snob appeal. Speaking of studies, do you know blind taste tests have shown people can't tell one wine from another? JONAH LEHRER highlights the analysis of the Princeton professor Richard Quandt3, who found that almost of all the wines were “statistically undistinguishable” from each other. This suggests that, if the blind tasting were held again, a Jersey wine might very well win. the sensory differences between different bottles of rotten grape juice are so slight —and the differences get even more muddled after a few sips—there is often wide disagreement about which wines are best. For instance, both the winning red and white wines in the Princeton tasting were ranked by at least one of the judges as the worst.vin de table . Although they were being served the exact same wine, the experts gave the bottles nearly opposite descriptions. The grand cru was summarized as being “agreeable,” “woody,” “complex,” “balanced,” and “rounded,” while the most popular adjectives for the vin de table included “weak,” “short,” “light,” “flat,” and “faulty.”bought a wide variety of bottles at the local supermarket, from a five-dollar Bordeaux to a fifty-dollar champagne, and asked people to say which wine was more expensive. (All of the taste tests were conducted double-blind, with neither the experimenter nor subject aware of the actual price.) According to Wiseman’s data, the five hundred and seventy-eight participants could only pick the more expensive wine fifty-three per cent of the time, which is basically random chance. They actually performed below chance when it came to picking red wines. Bordeaux fared the worst, with a significant majority—sixty-one per cent—picking the cheap plonk as the more expensive selection.2008 survey of amateur wine drinkers, which found a slight negative correlation between price and happiness, “suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.”retail: seven hundred and twenty-five dollars ) and Heritage BDX (seventy dollars6), then why do we splurge on premiers crus? newyorker.com abc.net.au
