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There's a Youtube series called 'So you think you know wine' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGNMpqfwhUk

Each episode is a blind taste teste of a single wine with 4 experts who are asked to guess the varietal, country, region, year and price. They don't always get it right, but they're significantly more accurate than you would expect if wine was a hoax.

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Thanks for the video. One interesting point, they're determining the price based on their knowledge of wine, and how much a wine of that variety, grown in that particular region should cost to produce. At no point do they associate taste directly with the price. I think this helps to illustrate we should be trying wines from different regions, rather than different price points. Find a region and variety that you enjoy, and then find a bottle that's priced fairly for what you're buying.

Yes. Whenever I hear the stupid argument about wine experts being dummies, I send them this video.

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