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Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by mrob on Thursday February 09, 2017 @07:55PM (#13612461)
Students, not professional tasters. "The wine comparison test was carried out by 54 undergraduates from the Faculty of Oenology of the University of Bordeaux."

http://www.daysyn.com/Morrot.pdf

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Re:The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016) by DonaldFisk on Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:19PM (#13612561)
Wine students. I'd expect them to know a lot more about wine than most people.

The wine's colour is part of the experience of drinking wine and affects the perceived flavour. They probably wouldn't have been fooled so easily if they were blindfolded.

Knowing a wine's price also affect its perceived flavour: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-how-wines-pr...

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