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» Be honest, how many of you can actually taste the "delicate notes" of wines?
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post 1672924183 12-15-2022, 06:56 PM
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Be honest, how many of you can actually taste the "delicate notes" of wines?

Srs it all pretty much tastes the same to me. Am I unrefined?
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post 1672925953 12-15-2022, 07:31 PM
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I can taste the difference for sure but am not on of those pretentious “slight hint of almond, tobacco, and apricot” types.

I like medium bodied reds and whites.
post 1672926023 12-15-2022, 07:32 PM
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American reds are generally light to medium bodied.

And I’m not drinking any fcking Merlot!!!!
post 1672926783 12-15-2022, 07:44 PM
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I can taste the difference between a crappy box/bag wine, and a cheap $20-30 bottle. The bagged stuff tastes like syrup.

I won’t go over that because I can’t pick up on stuff like “smells of a white lily when the bees pass over with just the right amount of pollen.”

Wine snobs hate my go to though. Simple bottle of ménage a trois. Usually their darker reds.

Owner of our company once gave everyone a bunch of Napa Valley wines because he was never gonna drink it all. Everyone in the company got 2 or 3. Looked them up and they’re around $70-90 bottle. It was good, but not good enough for me to pony up almost $100 on one when I can get 4 cheaper bottles for that much.
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post 1672926953 12-15-2022, 07:47 PM
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Yes, but not the over-the-top descriptive level of it. There are definitely diminishing marginal returns in terms of wine prices. From $15 to $100 is a big difference. After that it has way more to do with how many cases were available than just quality.
post 1672927503 12-15-2022, 07:55 PM
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Delicate notes? Nah. But sometimes I'll take a sip and notice different fruit like pear in some whites or cherry or in reds. After plenty of single grape wine drinking overall I tend to like red blends the most. They're not all winners but overall my favorite.
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post 1672927513 12-15-2022, 07:56 PM
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I don't drink wine because I'm not a woman or a gay.
post 1672927603 12-15-2022, 07:57 PM
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there's big differences even between a 5$ and 10$ bottle
post 1672927643 12-15-2022, 07:58 PM
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Wines... No.

Whiskey, bourbon, scotch... Hell yes. Top shelf only crew. Japanese whiskey crew.
post 1672928013 12-15-2022, 08:03 PM
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Isn't wine tasting a scam? I mean, beyond telling that there's a difference between a $10 bottle and a $100 bottle.

I saw a show once where they tried a blind test with sommeliers, and these experts didn't seem to know much. Granted, that could itself have been fake.
post 1672928403 12-15-2022, 08:10 PM
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I only buy $5 wine srs

tastes fine to me
post 1672928493 12-15-2022, 08:12 PM
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post 1672928523 12-15-2022, 08:12 PM
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its grape juice with a scoop of dirt in it.
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post 1672928563 12-15-2022, 08:13 PM
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99% of wine taste like chit to me tbh. Never been a fan.
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post 1672928903 12-15-2022, 08:19 PM
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Obviously **** wine and better wine but when people are like I taste chocolate and apricot and dirt im like stfu
post 1672935583 12-15-2022, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted By Redundanteater
Isn't wine tasting a scam? I mean, beyond telling that there's a difference between a $10 bottle and a $100 bottle.

I saw a show once where they tried a blind test with sommeliers, and these experts didn't seem to know much. Granted, that could itself have been fake.
Watch the documentary “Somm.” Pretty interesting.
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Jfl if you're not asking the waiter to sniff his wine.
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