> In the course of their routine duties, he would sometimes present the judges with samples from the same bottle three times without their knowledge. The judges were among the top experts in the American wine industry: winemakers, sommeliers, critics and buyers as well as wine consultants and academics. The results were "disturbing"... "Over the years he has shown again and again that even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine."
You fully and completely misunderstood what I wrote, I am well aware of those double-blind tests (which can have their own flaws), but real life experience of me, my wife and plenty of our friends consistently says what it says.
We are not yet in time where I trust internet or anonymous commenters more than my/our own taste buds.
But look, if you enjoy those 5 euro wines in same way as others do with 5000 euro bottles, good for you. Or at least illusion of equality there, at the end it doesn't matter that much, does it. I'll stick with our selection of 8-50 euro range of french and italian ones (mostly at the bottom part), so everybody is happy.
> real life experience of me, my wife and plenty of our friends consistently says what it says...
Real-life experience fairly consistently shows vaccines cause autism, angels are real, and my cousin's brother's sister-in-law went to school with a kid named "Shithead" but pronounced "shu-theed".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_wine_tasting
> In the course of their routine duties, he would sometimes present the judges with samples from the same bottle three times without their knowledge. The judges were among the top experts in the American wine industry: winemakers, sommeliers, critics and buyers as well as wine consultants and academics. The results were "disturbing"... "Over the years he has shown again and again that even trained, professional palates are terrible at judging wine."