On Nov 30, 10:46*pm, jcdill > wrote:
> On 30/11/10 8:00 AM, Steve Pope wrote:
>
> > *What's misssing in America mostly is
> > valid marketing -- one can see 50 high-priced olive oils in a specialty
> > shop in the U.S. and only maybe 5 are remotely worth the price.
>
> The same thing can be said for a LOT of wine. *There was a piece on NPR
> today about wine tasting. *They took highly rated wines and asked a
> large number of experts to rate them and the ratings were all over the
> map. *Even worse, they then snuck the same wines back in for another
> subsequent rating later with the same experts, and the experts would
> give the same wine a very different rating (sometimes higher, sometimes
> lower) on the subsequent tasting.

For wines I'll stick to my binary rating, a la Hot or Not.