Wine tasting is fun. But inaccurate unles ypou're spitting it out. After a flight, you can drink anything and say cool stuff like oak, plum, woody, tannins, legs etc and nobody will disagree. :) -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Aanjhan Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:24 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) We (some 12 of us) in Zurich, had a blind wine tasting party. Each of us got a wine bottle (either expensive or cheap). The host wrapped the bottles in aluminium foil and numbered them. Everybody then tasted the wine and started classifying the wines. It was fun (of-course at the end of it ). Nobody got more than 70% right. And guess who scored 70%? ;-) The worst score was by a German girl (Can't blame her. There was no beer). So yes, some wines do taste yuck. But it is always personal preference and wine connoisseurs are a bit of snobs. This XKCD post comes to my mind http://xkcd.com/915/ My 2 cents. -- A
