Comments on: Wine Experts Frauds?

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Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:19:41 +0000

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By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:41:39 +0000

On balance there isn't much difference between a Coors, Bud or whatever other watery lager one can buy at Wal*Mart.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:13:54 +0000

As for beer, I found many people can’t tell the difference between some of the more popular brands but some do. I often switch brands or style of beer depending on my particular taste for the night.

I have known quite of few bartenders that ran the same tap beer into different label taps when they ran out of one type of beer.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:06:11 +0000

Many of the wine critics\lovers I have come across know the language and wine labels but know little about wine. They seem to do it more for the snob facture than anything else.

However there are some that really know their wine. I am not much of a wine drinker. Most wine taste vinegary to me. Although I did have a friend that knew which wines I would like and they did tend to be the more expensive wines but I usually didn’t know that until after I tasted them since he order them. There have been many expensive wines that I didn’t care for.

This isn’t unusual for many areas including gourmet food, guns, cars, clothing and many others. Some of it has do with style, quality of the goods and how it fits with the individual.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:44:10 +0000

Let's hear it for 2 Buck Chuck! (3 Buck Chuck if you live outside California)

By: just me

just me — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:09:48 +0000

I imagine for most beverages a person can pick out "cheap" easily enough, but the other stuff not so easily.

Wine in general is something I loath anyway-it tastes like somebody poured a bottle of hairspray into a bottle of fruit juice and put a cork in it.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:13:00 +0000

In college we conducted a blind taste test of six bears

We did the same, it came out:

Grizzly
Black
Brown
Panda
Koala
Teddy

;-)

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:09:21 +0000

In college we conducted a blind taste test of six bears (including the putative favorites). No one picked their 'preffered' beer #1. The rankings were all over the place with one exception. Everyone picked the generic beer (whie can with black lettering) as the bottom pick.

Bottom line is that a blaind tast test might find you something you like as well as the $30 a bottle, but at a more reasonable cost.