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Originally Posted by flylock shox
That Guardian-reported study seems a bit limited.
Really, all it shows is that the quality or "goodness" of a wine - as far as most people can tell - does not correlate with the price of the wine.
And it's also limited in that it asked the question of non-experts - which is fine to a limited extent. But I'd be interested to see how experts fared by comparison - not in assessing which wines were "cheap" and which were "expensive," but rather which scored highly, and which did not. It would also be fun to compare the average and spread of ratings amongst experts on blind taste tests.
Anyway, for the average Joe, the study is reassuring, I just wouldn't extrapolate it to a more wine-educated crowd.
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The links in post # 5 shows how professional wine tasters do not test much better. I recall reading some could not even distinguish white from red in blind testing.