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The Frontal Cortex : The Subjectivity of Wine

Codebender rated 11 months ago
"What these experiments neatly demonstrate is that the taste of a wine, like the taste of everything, is not merely the sum of our inputs, and cannot be solved in a bottom-up fashion." That's mighty generous, I'd say it means that wine snobs are completely full of shit, and ca...

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mrdafool rated 11 months ago
Great test on sample group of avid wine tasters.
Codebender rated 11 months ago
"What these experiments neatly demonstrate is that the taste of a wine, like the taste of everything, is not merely the sum of our inputs, and cannot be solved in a bottom-up fashion." That's mighty generous, I'd say it means that wine snobs are completely full of shit, and can't tell Pinot Gris from Night Train.
barrelhead rated 11 months ago
Cute tricks w/ wine testing.
GamePrey rated 11 months ago
This is why wine tasting is BS -- it's so biased and depends too much on personal preference. I mean, sure there's a difference between $10 grocery store wine and $1500/bottle Romane Conti, but there's still too much personal preference involved.
Maxismax rated 11 months ago
Wine 'experts' get owned in two simple blind taste test experiments.