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No shit, Sherlock.
A significant percentage of professional wine writers cannot tell red wine from white in a true blind taste test.
I actually prefer Vendange (you can get a two liter bottle for about $6 if you shop the sales) – I’ve had really fancy Bordeaux that cost $250 here ($40 there) and a lot is in your mind, so I’m not surprised.
That said, it took a while (mostly when I was in France and noticed everyone uses them for fancy wines) to realize that wine in a box can actually be as good as wine in a bottle.
Drink the fancy glass of wine first or share the bottle – then switch to the cheaper wine – you’ll enjoy it a lot more than the other way around.
snicker…love, love, love the ecb reference.
still haven’t forgiven you for trashing on Mad Men, though.
I went to a social event for work where we did a blind tasting of eight wines and had to match the wine to the pre-written description (“notes of cherry”, etc.). It was pretty tough, but the hardest part of the competition was that you also had to guess the price of the wine. Almost everyone failed miserably on that one…
Penn & Teller had an awesome episode of BullShit where they proved this very point. They even took it a few steps further by serving up Hungry-Man dinners in 5star restaurants and passing it off as high quality. Funny as hell!
I hate those obvious, stupid studies, too.
in other news – water: still wet
That’s why I use dihydrogen oxide instead. It tastes better.