http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/10/27/more-psychology-of-wine/ In Search of The Infogasm Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:50:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/10/27/more-psychology-of-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-2361 anon Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:31:52 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=4001#comment-2361 Well that just seems like an excuse and a bad one at that. It is true that the brain needs situational advice to classify events/things. However with as much practice as a wine taster should have he should be able to pick up subtle aromas in a wine without being told what kind of wine it is. Because if he cant, who can? Compare this to the situation in music, where you can actually judge a piece without context and there even is something such as absolute pitch. (I dislike the comparison with art, because art can just get weird and totally context dependet...) It is really great to like wine, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you're really tasting inherent qualities of the wine; if you even need the wine to have the right color (some scientist succesfully colored white wine red) to classify it and other stuff the scientist have shown, then chances are that even with training the signal to noise ratio of the inherent qualitites of wine defeat any chance of objective tasting. In my opinion you're just fooling yourself when you think the wine tastes of something particular and really just picking up the aquivalent of white noise with your nose... Well that just seems like an excuse and a bad one at that. It is true that the brain needs situational advice to classify events/things. However with as much practice as a wine taster should have he should be able to pick up subtle aromas in a wine without being told what kind of wine it is. Because if he cant, who can? Compare this to the situation in music, where you can actually judge a piece without context and there even is something such as absolute pitch. (I dislike the comparison with art, because art can just get weird and totally context dependet…)
It is really great to like wine, but don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’re really tasting inherent qualities of the wine; if you even need the wine to have the right color (some scientist succesfully colored white wine red) to classify it and other stuff the scientist have shown, then chances are that even with training the signal to noise ratio of the inherent qualitites of wine defeat any chance of objective tasting. In my opinion you’re just fooling yourself when you think the wine tastes of something particular and really just picking up the aquivalent of white noise with your nose…

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