This is a fascinating topic (perhaps it deserves its own thread). I
remember reading that as part of the test to become a wine master you
had to be able to pick different varieties out of a blended wine in
taste tests and this impressed me tremendously. I can distinguish the
taste of different varieties in a taste test, but still can't name
which is which. But, I don't see it as something that should be that
impossible with practice and training.

Does the article say exactly what these "trained" people were trained
to do?


Lum" > wrote in message >...
> Miker, the paper gives pretty convincing evidence that even trained people
> cannot tell one veriatal wine from another.
>