Roses are getting very popular, as the scourge of pink Kool-Aid like the white zins is finally passing away. At my local TJ's I asked about a rose Cotes du Roussillon Villages and someone had just been in and swept up all that they had. It's not that great but quite acceptable. edit: my bad. It was a 2014 Cotes de Provence from Quinson.
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And where are the DBTs to prove that those taste any different from two buck chuck? How unscientific.
Yeah right, but what direction to dress all those wires? How DO you figure it out?
It's been coming to light that professional wine reviewers are about as accurate as professional hifi reviewers---that is, for many, if they can see the label (or the loudspeaker) all bets are off.
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They're done routinely. Like every day at wineries, every day in wine training and qualification programs, every day at wine competitions.
I disagree, there are significant differences in wines. I've found that two buck chuck is by far the best toilet bowl cleaner.
And violins.
Of course once again JC has fallen into the trap that no one really cares if someone 'prefers' $100 a bottle wine as long as they don't go around claiming its superior with no proof.
I have only on a couple of occasions drunk really 'fine' wine. The best of those was 25 years ago when I had a chance to drink a bottle of chateau cheval blanc that my father had been keeping for a special occasion. He had got a case cheap in the early 70s and forgot about it as it didn't seem very good. Twenty years later it was nicely aged. The occasion was the whole thing as there were 3 of us gathered around to drink the last bottle. So it tasted like velvet to use a hackneyed phrase. The 1963 Taylors that followed it was rather good too.
A good memory and one I cannot afford to repeat but glad I had it. Not unlike the Hifi show demo of wilson watt/puppy with Dave wilson at the helm. He steered perceptions but damn it sounded good. Neither experience prove anything!
Of course once again JC has fallen into the trap that no one really cares if someone 'prefers' $100 a bottle wine as long as they don't go around claiming its superior with no proof.
I have only on a couple of occasions drunk really 'fine' wine. The best of those was 25 years ago when I had a chance to drink a bottle of chateau cheval blanc that my father had been keeping for a special occasion. He had got a case cheap in the early 70s and forgot about it as it didn't seem very good. Twenty years later it was nicely aged. The occasion was the whole thing as there were 3 of us gathered around to drink the last bottle. So it tasted like velvet to use a hackneyed phrase. The 1963 Taylors that followed it was rather good too.
A good memory and one I cannot afford to repeat but glad I had it. Not unlike the Hifi show demo of wilson watt/puppy with Dave wilson at the helm. He steered perceptions but damn it sounded good. Neither experience prove anything!
That's only true near the equator; they have to be horizontal near the poles.
> He steered perceptions
Yes ........... A good perception pilot can do wonders !
But took me 10 years to realise that is what he had done. Still damned impressive demo.
I don't need to, basic sensory evaluation is taught in every oenology program. Davis has at least three profs in the oenology program who specialize in taste evaluation methods.
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