Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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- Basking in my own brilliance.
I thought I did not like wine until Hover's ex-wife brought us some of her Sauternes, it is like alcoholic honey with a drop of fruit juice mixed in it.
What type of wine do you drink?
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One of the most famous instances of blind testing is known as the Judgment of Paris, a wine competition held in 1976 where French judges blind-tested wines from France and California. Against all expectations, California wines bested French wines according to the judges, a result which would have been unlikely in a non-blind contest. This event was depicted in the 2008 movie Bottle Shock.
Another well-publicized double-blind taste test was conducted in 2011 by Prof. Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire. In a wine tasting experiment using 400 participants, Wiseman found that general members of the public were unable to distinguish expensive wines from inexpensive ones.[6] "People just could not tell the difference", said Wiseman, "between cheap and expensive wine".[7]
Copied from wikipedia, hunt around its' been proven many times. They did it over 5 years with the same wines in one study I read (when I started drinking wine) and all that could be gotten from it was that the choices on the "connoisseurs" where almost random.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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- Wilmslow, Cheshire
If you want a cheap drinkable red then Aldi do a vintage claret for less than £4 that is remarkably palatable.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
Reds-Chilean or Bulgarian Cabernet
Whites- Italian
Whites- Italian
simon the viking
Guru
Mrs V doesn't drink Red so we normally drink a Dry white like Chardonnay or Pinot Grigio, but if I do buy a red I quite like a Spanish Rjioca (please ignore spelling) Campo Viejo or Faustino V or VII If on offer they can be bought for around £6 instead of the usual £10 - £12 and are very nice, Smooth without being too fruity (Faustino I is fab but is £
and never discounted)
and never discounted)
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Red - a nice big Aussie or a Chilean will do me, wine that is 
Hover Fly
He, him, his
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- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Living on a wine chateau for several years I came to the conclusion, "If you want to find a pompous BSer, find a wine expert" Not the makers, but the writers and critics.
For example one well known chap stated that he could tell "...any Bordeaux vintage since 1920 quite easily" Really? There's about 11000 different producers! He also, in front of ex-Mme hover Fly, who had to stop herself smirking, compared her 2005 to the 1961 vintage when young, he would have been in his teens in the early 60s, do you think you could remember exactly what a wine tasted like over 40 years later?
The Brochet experiments at Bordeaux university make interesting reading.
sackville d
Guru
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- Todmorden
Me and ex Her used to get a mixed dozen from Laithwaites.New world stuff, mostly Aus,Chilean,S.African.
Ten years ago they cost about £60,so £5 per bottle and the quality was way above what you would get in a shop for that money. It was a bit like Christmas when we opened a new box seeing what the selection was
that had been sent this time
Ten years ago they cost about £60,so £5 per bottle and the quality was way above what you would get in a shop for that money. It was a bit like Christmas when we opened a new box seeing what the selection was
that had been sent this time
Then I will give that a go
Booyaa
Veteran
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- South Staffordshire
Usually Italian red, a Nobile de Montepulciano has been my favourite. Also really enjoy a St Emilion or Chateauneuf-de-Pap.
Tin Pot
Guru
Is this part of your new book "Coping with a sexless marriage"?
A couple of years ago I decided to get into wine, whilst I do have preferences the short story is that you'll like it the more it costs. That is until once you get above around £80 a bottle, then it becomes a bit more of an acquired taste.
