On Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 2:56:17 PM UTC-10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:10:11 -1000, dsi1 > wrote:
>
> >On 6/16/2016 2:34 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> >>
> >> http://fortune.com/2016/06/14/wine-c...htmlws-main-bb
> >>
> >
> >All wines should be tasted blindly. My guess is that most people taste
> >wine with their eyes i.e., by reading the label.
>
> By the price... like the emporer's new clothes, they're ascared to say
> a high priced wine is lousy. I've always maintained and still do that
> no wine on the planet is worth more than a buck a glass, it's all
> fermented grape juice... worth no more than a sour pickle or a cup of
> kraut. The most costly part of a bottle of ANY wine is its bottle,
> cork, label, transportation, and advertizing... the wine itself has no
> real intrinsic value, no more value than rotting fruit. The different
> wine flavors have no more value over each other than the different
> flavors of jellybeans.... should grape jellybeans cost more than
> orange jellybeans?

That sounds about right. Blind taste tests are a scary thing for wine connoisseurs because the price of wine has little to do with the taste and it make them look like fools. Now please excuse me, I have to go kill myself.