tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455532517967373639.post8747901560910829595..comments2024-03-14T02:46:13.573-05:00Comments on Science Based Cuisine: On the issue of wine snobberyDr. Rickyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14402750016330919877noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455532517967373639.post-5483299081729404692009-02-06T01:42:00.000-06:002009-02-06T01:42:00.000-06:00Most studies that look at the difference between "...Most studies that look at the difference between "expensive" wine and "cheap" wine are comparing two fantastic wines. I.e. a wine that costs $25 a bottle vs. a wine that costs $100 a bottle. It's the classic diminishing-returns problem, and the conclusions made my food columnists aren't really very accurate. Indeed, by most peoples' standards, they would fall into expensive wine and obscenely expensive wine categories.<BR/><BR/>A wine-tasting that compares a $2 bottle of wine (a 2 buck chuck, for example) with a $15 wine will be painfully obvious which one is which (even to a wine ignoramus like me). The cheaper wine generally has only 1 flavour. The more expensive one has more stuff going on. That's the major difference.<BR/><BR/>There's far fewer differences between a $25 and a $100 wine than there are between the $2 and the $15 wine.<BR/><BR/>As a way of pointing out - I went to a wine tasting a couple years ago - three wines were showcased. As the host explained, they were a "cheap" wine, a "medium-priced" wine and an "expensive wine", but she didn't tell us which was which. They ranged from being undrinkable to being palatable, but clearly boring and nothing I would try again given the choice. When unveiled, the unpalatable was a $6 wine (the most expensive of the bunch), and the merely boring was a 2 buck chuck. None of them were any good (and I was blinded to all of them prior to the tasting). But the 2 buck chuck is at least something that is drinkable, if uninteresting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2455532517967373639.post-75625223988218048512009-02-05T19:58:00.000-06:002009-02-05T19:58:00.000-06:00I agree with you on this matter, can you really te...I agree with you on this matter, can you really tell a difference from when you are sipping the so called prestige versus a $8.00 bottle of yellow tail? <BR/>CheersHoustonWokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08999198259601051319noreply@blogger.com