highdudgeon;157847 Wrote: > > Of course, there is the UC Davis oenology department black cup > test...where in, yes, double-blind tests experienced tasters scored 50% > in distinguishing reds from whites. In another experiment, cheap and > expensive wines were poured into different bottles. In a non-blind > test, the expensive label wines (which were actually cheap) won the > day. This is not a rumor; my brother-in-law went to school there. >
You know, I had heard this story (about reds vs. whites) before, but I found it pretty hard to believe - so I tried it. We took two reds and two whites and did a blind taste test. We tried to pick reasonably neutral wines (one of the reds was a Beaujolais, for example) so as to make it as hard as possible. Guess what - the difference was completely obvious. It wasn't ever necessary to taste twice, or taste the others before deciding - we immediately knew in each case from the first taste whether the wine was white or red. Try it yourself - it's just impossible to mistake them (at least for ordinary wines; you could of course make a "red" wine by coloring a white without changing the taste, but I assume that's not what you meant). On the other hand the thing about expensive labels I have no trouble believing - there was an "experiment" like that on a huge scale - the San Francisco wine competition - which clearly demonstrated it. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29025 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
