Every blind tasting study I've seen has proved consistently that there is no discernible taste/quality difference between cheap and expensive wine.
<$10 ? I'm all for cheap booze but pretty much any wine in that range is going to taste about the same (quality wise).
Every blind tasting study I've seen has proved consistently that there is no discernible taste/quality difference between cheap and expensive wine.
Every blind tasting study I've seen has proved consistently that there is no discernible taste/quality difference between cheap and expensive wine.
I agree with you, but due to the intense taxation in canada, only the cheapest wines are <$10 for a fifth. So Locut0s is used to that.
I've had great $2 a bottle wine before, just not in Canada.
Depends on what you mean by cheap and expensive. I'll agree with you once we break say the $20-30/bottle mark. There probably isn't going to be a big difference between a $30 bottle and a $300 bottle. But I can tell you that really really cheap wino wine tastes cheap.
Don't know what the average price in the US for wine is though. I would have thought that NZ though would mirror our own pricing on average.
We have significant duties on alcohol - a cheap wine here is around $10 (or just under).
I was looking at a study recently that gave the wine tasting retard-brigade three glasses of wine - one they were told was $5, one was $30 and one was $90. They all picked the $90 bottle as the best and described it vastly differently to how they described the $5 bottle. It was the same wine in all three glasses.
Another study put white wine and red wine into opaque black cups - the wine elite couldn't even tell which was which in a blind test.
Wine tasting is complete BS - price has absolutely nothing to do with quality/taste.
Riesling Red or White Wine - the stuff that says Relax on the side. I will drink those until I pass out! I think they are delicious for the price.
I've tried a couple of the barefoot wines and didn't like any of them.i stick to the yellow tail. i tried a couple barefoot bottles, but they all tasted "off" to me.
Every blind tasting study I've seen has proved consistently that there is no discernible taste/quality difference between cheap and expensive wine.
I find the first "study" doubtful. I wouldn't be surprised if they picked a cheap wine as the best in a blind study, but side by side, most people could tell if they were drinking the same wine.
I find the second "study" completely unbelievable. Whites and reds taste very different. Unless maybe you're talking about a red with extremely low tannins.
I'm not sure about Canada, but in the US, I've found that most $5 bottles of wine are not very good, while there are a lot of good wines in the $8 to $10 range.
My favorite white varietal is Gevurtraminer. Fetzer makes a good one and so do a lot of the Oregon and Washington vineyards. Most of them have a little sweetness, but you can also find dry versions.
If I remember correctly- the study was with people who had little or no wine drinking experience. Once you develop a more refined palet and can pick up more subtlties from the wines, I'm sure most could tell the difference. (to an extent- again, a $75 and a $150 may be difficult to tell, but a $5 and a $50 would be clear.)
For instance, on wine library TV, gary frequently does blind tastings, and is usually spot on with his price range estimate.
As for the OP- I'll agree w/ others, usually NZ SB's are good for the $$.
Two Buck Chuck available at Trader Joes. It is surprisingly good.
If I remember correctly- the study was with people who had little or no wine drinking experience. Once you develop a more refined palet and can pick up more subtlties from the wines, I'm sure most could tell the difference. (to an extent- again, a $75 and a $150 may be difficult to tell, but a $5 and a $50 would be clear.)
For instance, on wine library TV, gary frequently does blind tastings, and is usually spot on with his price range estimate.
As for the OP- I'll agree w/ others, usually NZ SB's are good for the $$.