[quote=scaredyclassic]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]
There really are people that can tell the most minute differences. I went out with a woman that was a upper-tier chef school trained sommelier. To graduate, she had to taste wine blindfolded and identify the grape, where it was from, the vintage and all kinds of other shit. We were at a fancy restaurant and got to talking with the sommelier, and they were talking shop. They did a little parlor trick and between the two of them, they could still identify the details for about 8 out of 10 wines. They were 10 for 10 in identifying the grape and country of origin.
Funny think about her was, she didn’t even like wine. She only went through the training because her husband was very involved in a wine tasting group and she didn’t want to feel left out. (Peripherally related to other threads, her husband was the CFO for Smith & Wesson.)
