More proof that no one knows anything about wine

[endicom]

Market Watch
Steven Kutz
June 14, 2017

It’s hard not to laugh when you hear the way some wines are described. A wine can be briary, burnt, blunt, brawny or backward. It can be fat, fleshy or flinty. And it can be described to have a finish you hope will never, well, finish. But a recent report shows those highfalutin adjectives translate into big money for winemakers.

In a recent experiment, participants were presented with the same wine — once with no information about it and once with an elaborate description — and formed very different opinions of them. Consumers typically see wine descriptions on bottle labels and on websites that sell the wine.

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Or beer or single-malt scotch or...

[Sanguine]

I know wine always tastes better in the restaurant than it does when I buy the same wine and drink it at home.

[skeeter]

I know wine always tastes better in the restaurant than it does when I buy the same wine and drink it at home.

Thats cause a glass of wine at home doesn't cost $15.

[endicom]

I know wine always tastes better in the restaurant than it does when I buy the same wine and drink it at home.

Ambiance. It's the ambiance. Or some such crap.

[endicom]

Thats cause a glass of wine at home doesn't cost $15.

I don't know, that Red Rooster ain't as cheap as it used to be.

[skeeter]

I don't know, that Red Rooster ain't as cheap as it used to be.

[bolobaby]

"The wine varietals that participants tasted were Chardonnay, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc."

Stop right there.

They lost credibility when they performed the test with white wines.

But the study is bogus anyway. At a certain quality level, differences in appreciation are somewhat subjective. But if you toss me a glass of Two Buck Chuck versus, say, Chateau Montelena, I will be able to tell the difference in a heartbeat.

[NavyCanDo]

Except for a few German - Austrian wines like a Mosel or Gewurztraminer I just dont like wine. Goes back to a large bottle of MD20-20 we finished off in 1976 at a high school party and emptying my stomach all over my car seat afterward. God knows how I made it home. But since then the smell of most wine gives me flashbacks.   

[Gefn]

They are building aTrader Joes near me. If I want wine, I'll get two buck Chuck. I hear it's ok.

[unite for individuality]

One thing about wine: the more you drink, the less you know.

If you drink enough of it, you won't even be able to taste it at all!

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Lose the box and hold it by the bag, Nancy.