On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:46:40AM +0100, Aanjhan Ranganathan wrote: > 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%? ;-)
You should try this with a 100% tannat grape and lesser wines. Sure, some are more organoleptically challenged than others, but I'd assume the recognition rate would nearly quantitative in this case. > 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 Beers have huge differences as well. Consider this thread: http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/3949153 > preference and wine connoisseurs are a bit of snobs. This XKCD post > comes to my mind http://xkcd.com/915/ -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
