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Wine "experts" are frauds:
M Brochet carried out two studies. In the first, he invited 54 of Bordeaux’s eminent wine experts to sample different bottles, including a white wine to which he had added a flavourless substance giving it a red colour. Not a single expert noticed. "It is a well known psychological phenomonen – you taste what you are expecting to taste," M Brochet said. "They were expecting to taste a red wine, and so they did." Similar experiments elsewhere had come up with similar results.
Funny stuff. I guess a good rule is "if it tastes good it is good" and ignore the price tag. Hat tip to Philip Greenspun, who reports on the cheap and excellent wine in Chile.
Wine is apparently the topic of the new movie Sideways. Waiter Rant has something to say about that.
Posted by lesjones