On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:02:55 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>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.

Have you ever noticed that most all tasting experts are senior
citizens... humans never have more taste buds than at birth (they run
half way down the esophagus) which they immediately begin to lose
until by age 30 half are gone and by age fifty 75% are gone... and teh
sense of smell deteriorates even more rapidly. A fifty year old blind
taste testing wine couldn't tell a CA Zin from a Mogan David Concord.
Taste testing is purely a marketing ploy... better than 50% of all
people on the planet are afflicted with TIAD. Four legged critters
have a far better sense of taste and smell... I bought a 36 can case
of Fancy Feast Seafood Classic yesterday, none of my cats indoor or
outdoor would eat any, they all took a whiff and walked away looking
very annoyed... I tried all three flavors with the same results. It
all looked like any other and smelled the same, no, I didn't taste
any. I phoned Purina to complain, they appologized and will be
sending me a check for $19.99.