Monday, November 19, 2007

Yellow Tail's all Around

The only difference between a bordeaux grand cru and cheap table wine is a fancy label and a few hundred dollars:
The second test Brochet conducted was even more damning. He took a middling Bordeaux and served it in two different bottles. One bottle was a fancy grand-cru. The other bottle was an ordinary vin du table. Despite the fact that they were actually being served the exact same wine, the experts gave the differently labeled bottles nearly opposite ratings. The grand cru was "agreeable, woody, complex, balanced and rounded," while the vin du table was "weak, short, light, flat and faulty". Forty experts said the wine with the fancy label was worth drinking, while only 12 said the cheap wine was.

Well.... i'm really only trying to say something to piss off the wine fans so they will post a retort.

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