On Thursday 10 Nov 2011 2:17:14 pm Deepa Mohan wrote: > I don't see anything wrong with liking the cheapest and most plonky wine in > the supermarket. > Deepa wine appreciation is pure snobbery nothing else. You might have read about the expert wine tasters who detected hint of rose etc when they were given white wine colored pink by a tasteless artificial coloring agent. (link and quote below)
I am certain some wines must be better than others, just like I would say that Talisker or Laphroaig are the best whiskies in my view. But In India I drink 100 Pipers. Failing that arrack will do. For all the bullshitting about wine I belong to a social class that looks at price of wine first and then decides about taste. It is always safe to say cheap wine is lousy. Cheap is lousy is a standard wannabe cliche and the stuff that salespeople's dreams are made of. Expensive wine, which no one actually drinks - or drinks very little of, must be good. No one in his right senses will pay the equivalent of US$ 5000 for a bottle of wine and say "Yuck! Vinegar!" Here you go: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/11/the_subjectivity_of_wine.php Makes a great read. The red dye story is there as well. >The second test Brochet conducted was even more damning. He took a middling > Bordeaux and served it in two different bottles. One bottle was a fancy > grand-cru. The other bottle was an ordinary vin du table. Despite the fact > that they were actually being served the exact same wine, the experts gave > the differently labeled bottles nearly opposite ratings. The grand cru was > "agreeable, woody, complex, balanced and rounded," while the vin du table > was "weak, short, light, flat and faulty". Forty experts said the wine with > the fancy label was worth drinking, while only 12 said the cheap wine was. LOL! What a bunch of frauds. As usual the addition of the word "Indian" to wine will make our usual bunch of snobs crinkle their nosikinses in dellicate disgust before opening the bottle and tasting. Bunch of frauds is an understatement. shiv
