There is definitely good wine and not so good wine, if you define "good" as something you like.

I could believe that there is a tenuous link between price and quality, but that's not the same as saying there is no good wine.

Have a friend hold a blind tasting for you.

Did that to a couple of headstrong wine people, they were unable to tell their favorite (chardonnay for one and shiraz for another) from a bunch of AUD7 bottles.

There can be such a wide range of different wines within « chardonnay » and « Shiraz » that saying one of the two is you « favorite wine » is meaningless. Hence the outcome of this blind testing.

My wife and I accidentally did an experiment the other day. Grabbed a random bottle we got as a gift to drink with our pizza. It was a cab sauv which is a wine we usually don’t care for. We both were surprised at how much we did like it and how smooth it was. The next day we were shopping at target and saw it was an $85 bottle of wine.

Not sure if we could have told it from a $40 bottle, but it certainly stood head and shoulders above the $20 bottles we typically buy.

95% of people are also unable to tell the difference between a secure properly e2e encrypted chat, and an insecure chat.

Does that mean that there is no insecure and secure chat softwares?

With e2e vs insecure, there is an objective differentiating factor, while in wine (apart from price, there apparently isn’t).

To leverage your example, it would be like selling “secure e2e chat” (label) at a high price, although it uses insecure tech.

Yeah, alcohol quality shows itself off the next morning when waking up not in pain, for me.

If people claimed that e2e encrypted chats were more enjoyable, you may have had a point.

You are making a much stronger assertion than is supported by your link

>...the objective evaluation of large numbers of wines as currently attempted at wine competitions is, he asserts, "beyond human ability".

Wine experts also can't tell if they're tasting 3 glasses from the same bottle.

I don't mean to say you can't stuff up a batch of wine, but basically everything that made it to the store in the current state of quality control is good enough to not be told apart by anyone.

> Wine experts also can't tell if they're tasting 3 glasses from the same bottle.

No. It is possible to select three different wines that even people with excellent palettes can't really differentiate between, and it is possible with some suggestion to make people believe the same wine is different wines. It is also true that some wine "experts" have terrible palettes.

That is not the same piece of information as "wine experts also can't tell if they're tasting 3 glasses from the same bottle".

I'm referring to this paper quote in the wikipedia article:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-wine-econ...

They literally fed the same judges the same wine in multiple glasses and got different scores.

I took that to mean the high volume in competition affects the consistency of the results

Nothing in the link you posted supports your assertion.