Talk:Blind wine tasting

Article Bias
I get the impression that this article is written by someone skeptical about the validity of wine tasting in general. I've seen this article cited by those who feel that way, at least. Lots of information about wine tasting being a biased activity, with not enough study-backed reinforcement that blind tasting removes that bias. Given that I think wine tasting and sommeliers are very much valid, I'm hesitant to make any changes to this article as I don't want to introduce my own bias.

I personally think this article should focus mostly on blind tasting's ability to completely remove tasters' bias as a result of visual appearance, labels, price, winery reputation, etc. and the placebo effect. It should not focus on more subjective matters like rankings, scores, awards etc at competitions, since individuals' opinions can change by the minute, and in my opinion, competitions are kind of a pointless activity anyways.

At the very least, I think the Color Bias section could be strengthened with some information that reinforces blind tasting's ability to differentiate between differently colored wines, even for novices, specifically because the interfering visual element is removed. I think this study is a good one to cite for that purpose as well. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12078-009-9058-0

Curious on other's thoughts on the matter. Maybe I'll take a stab at it myself.

Rpgoof (talk) 16:43, 6 April 2021 (UTC)


 * I fully agree with your position. The article talks mostly about the differentiation of price and inconsistency of blind tasters and makes little to no mention of the individuals ability correctly identify attributes of wine i.e. acid, tannin, sugar, alcohol etc. Unknownwineguy (talk) 23:48, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Last paragraph problems
The last paragraph in this article, about "Veblen good," is poorly written and difficult to understand. Could someone with knowledge of the topic clean it up? 126.255.48.146 (talk) 00:25, 14 January 2022 (UTC)