Tuesday 23 July 2013

Wine judges fail the taste test (stream or podcast)

Turns out that "professional" wine tasters are no better at differentiating expensive wine from the cheapest plonk than anyone else.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-22/wine-blind-taste-testing/4835208 / study Great Britain England United Kingdom has found wine judges no better than general drinker picking most expensive wine lind taste test Oxford University psychologists finding research study found wine experts can judge faults quality maybe vintage year wine was made not always select top price top-priced bottle Professor Charles Spence Britain's top wine writers judges taste champagnes champagne turned out they had no idea what grape composition was which sounds shocking couldn't pick price their preferences were just flat 400 pounds $600-$700 tasted no better than 15-pound ($30) champagne alcohol /

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