google wine tasting is bullshit generally and this link to get to the study that blind tase testing experts cant even tell red from white with no visual cue.
i think i can tell abysmally spoiled wine from ok wine, and someotimes something tastes particularly good, but…probably i cant even tell that…[/quote]
I read that article a while back, the author doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The studies he cites suggest that a lot of the stuff wine reviewers say is nonsense, and that the palate can be influenced by a lot of things besides the taste of the wine — I totally agree with both. But he make this giant logical leap to draw sweeping conclusions, eg that it’s impossible to distinguish good from bad wine, which is just stupid. It’s not a good article, I’m sorry.
I will agree that for some people (maybe most people?), most wine tastes more or less the same. But your article assumes that’s the case for everyone, which is just isn’t. (BTW the article is clearly written by such a person). I don’t know what accounts for this difference. I have a really good sense of smell, I can always smell things other people can’t, so I’ve wondered if that’s it. But whatever the reason… the difference between what I perceive as a good wine and a non-good wine is just night and day.
