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Wine Tasting Trials...

Posted by mkuller on February 10, 2016 at 10:27:23:
...a member of my wine tasting group loaned me this fascinating book on blind wine tasting.

The author does over 500 blind tasting trials and finds most tasters prefer wines which cost less than $15 - he lists the winners in the second half of the book.

In comparison, publications like Wine Spectator and the Wine Advocate rarely rate an under $15 wine over 90 points, but reserve the higher scores for more expensive wines.

An example was a Chateau Michelle sparkling wine @ $12 which the author found was preferred in a blind tasting over Dom Perignon @ $150.

What's going on here? Read the book and you decide.

My own experience blind tasting with my group over the past 7 years confirms that the less expensive wines usually are preferred over the more expensive ones - price is not necessarily an indicator of quality.

This book was published in 2008 and there is a 2011 updated version I have not seen.

Recommended reading.