http://io9.com/wine-tasting-is-bullshit-...-496098276
Same wine is rated differently by the same judges.
White wine is dyed red and then rated as red by unknowing wine critics.
Summary: wine tasting is BS.
I've always believed this about wine, beer, whiskey, coffee, chocolate, all of it. It's just snobbery. These so-called experts are easily fooled and show themselves to be full of it. Then on the other end of the spectrum you've got hipsters professing their love for PBR to show how they're down with the working stiff.
Jim Norton Fan likes taco shop tacos but also likes taco bell. JNF likes cheap crap mostly and I don't care what anybody thinks of it. I can't see why anyone gives a damn what other people think of their tastes. I say it's insecurity.
Now, if some dude knows all the tasting lingo and uses it to impress ladies, what kind of game is that called? Then, I can see a practical purpose to this crap. That and using it in business. Like some dude talking about cigars and making asshole clients feel special and wanting to sign contracts because they're doing business with some dude who knows more about cigars than Castro and Bill Clinton combined.
Same wine is rated differently by the same judges.
White wine is dyed red and then rated as red by unknowing wine critics.
Summary: wine tasting is BS.
I've always believed this about wine, beer, whiskey, coffee, chocolate, all of it. It's just snobbery. These so-called experts are easily fooled and show themselves to be full of it. Then on the other end of the spectrum you've got hipsters professing their love for PBR to show how they're down with the working stiff.
Jim Norton Fan likes taco shop tacos but also likes taco bell. JNF likes cheap crap mostly and I don't care what anybody thinks of it. I can't see why anyone gives a damn what other people think of their tastes. I say it's insecurity.
Now, if some dude knows all the tasting lingo and uses it to impress ladies, what kind of game is that called? Then, I can see a practical purpose to this crap. That and using it in business. Like some dude talking about cigars and making asshole clients feel special and wanting to sign contracts because they're doing business with some dude who knows more about cigars than Castro and Bill Clinton combined.