[quote=Eugene][quote=davelj]
On that topic:

“The Complexities of Wine Tasting – Even the Experts can be Fooled”

http://newworldwine.suite101.com/article.cfm/becoming_an_expert_wine_taster_part_one%5B/quote%5D

[quote]Calvin Trillin wrote an essay for The New Yorker a few years ago that described a blind tasting among wine experts in which red and white wines were served in black glasses, so the color of the wine was hidden. Trillin gloated that the experts could not always tell the difference between red and white wines.[/quote]

I have to call B.S. I personally did a blind testing experiment like that. Differences are obvious and hard to miss. And I’m hardly an expert.[/quote]

Despite problems of journalistic ethics from various media outlets in recent years, I seriously doubt Calvin Trillin (of all people) just made this story up.

And apparently there is a lot of similar corroborating research out there that disputes purported wine expertise:

http://www.mountainspiritwinery.com/2006/12/exposing-those-wine-snobs-out-there.html

I’m no expert… just sayin’.