NPR, Wine Tasteing, & Audiophiles

Reminds me that blind testing is not a replacement for long term experience.

By the way, my favorite wines are the fine French Bordeaux's but they are too expensive for my budget in these lean times.

Instead, I drink Australian, California and other great wines that might rank 75 - 85 points against an almost perfect 99 - 100 French. I find good wines at $7.00 to $11.00 a bottle whereas the best might cost several hundred dollars.

Are the best wines worth that much more than the 75 to 85 rated wines? Yes, if that's what is important to you and have the money to spend. No, if your looking for "value" for the dollar.

From that standpoint, yes, it reminds me of something...........high end audio.

For instance Vandersteen 2C speakers are clearly a better value than my Dali Megalines simply because you can buy 44 pair of the Vandys for what one pair of Megalines cost.

Many things in life work this way.

Foie gras?

I like them bottles with the screw-off caps, so me and my ol' lady don't have to waste no time before getting drunk and doin' the old hoo-ha!

booyah Fatparrot..I was set to comment on Alberts insightful remarks, but I almost sent a mouthful of coffee onto my pc monitor after your post.

Perhaps even more interesting is the article from the New Yorker's annual food edition from maybe two years ago, where a blind test was held of red and white wine both at room temp. This is going back a little, but as I remember it the panel was made up of someliers from a very prestigious institute in Cali. and even the best ones could only tell the red from the white like 3/5 times. I was thinking vinyl v. cd?