i am gonna call bullshit.
i am not disputing that study he referenced nor am i going to defend wine snobbery (cuz thats just being an asshole).

but i have known a few people who could tell you the varietal or appellation just by taste.

hell,twenty years ago i was running a ballroom at this very affluent country club and every year one of the main partners would come down from canada and every year me and my boss would try to trick him with a wine tasting.

we even blindfolded his ass.
and every single time he would nail it.
sometimes even by vintner!
the man was impressive.

wine snobs are just trying to keep themselves relevant,but wine is fairly easy once you know the basics:
1.the things that raise the price of wine (not make it better in most cases) is storage time and name of vintner.
2.wines can be broken down into basic categories:
dry-semi dry
sweet-semi sweet
and of course white or red.(and i guess blush/rose)

dont get all caught up in intimidating processes that are unnecessary and frankly..useless.

drink what you like,and you dont have to break the bank for a good wine.

Expensive Wine Is For Suckers has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579.

Of course expensive wine is for suckers *related=http://videosift.com/video/Expensive-wines-taste-better-if-you-know-the-price-1

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@ChaosEngine

Wine-tasting is mostly in our minds:


"In one test, Brochet included fifty-four wine experts and asked them to give their impressions of what looked like two glasses of red and white wine. The wines were actually the same white wine, one of which had been tinted red with food coloring. But that didn’t stop the experts from describing the “red” wine in language typically used to describe red wines. One expert said that it was “jammy,”5 while another enjoyed its “crushed red fruit.”

"Another test that Brochet conducted was even more damning. He took a middling Bordeaux and served it in two different bottles. One bottle bore the label of a fancy grand cru, the other of an ordinary 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.”"

New Yorker

>> ^laura:
promote!


Excellent choice! Did you notice that I had put it here mere moments earlier?

It has since graduated to the "all time greatest" playlist.

*Bravo! Bravo! This will be perfect for wine-tasting party. You're coming, aren't you, blankie? You're supposed to bring the Thunderbird.

Sainsburys - and *british extreme wine tasting!

Awesome. I remember the last time I was at a wine tasting like that. Wait, no I don't.

Wow, 42 must be the magic number this year, for sure. I looked at a 50", but the darn thing was only 768 resolution, and I wanted 1080p. Also, Vizio seems to be the deal of the century for 42" HDTVs right now, too, becuase I picked mine up for 900 bucks. Way cheap. And, I found a true 1080p HD-DVD player for only $260 - usually they're 400.

BTW, I figured out what I have to get my girlfriend for x-mas. She's been wanting to go on a vacation for so long, and, to be honest, she works incredibly hard on an incredibly demanding account, so she deserves a break. In any event, we're going on vacation this week. Unenthusiastic yay. She's paying for half, though, which will be my gift. Yes, you heard it right. The vacation she wanted, she's paying half of it and making that my gift. I don't mind, though. It'll be fun. We were going to go to San Fran, but I think we're now going to Santa Ynez for some wine tasting. BridleWood and Matei's Tavern here I come!