Would you be fooled?!
Are you a person who thinks a bottle of wine has to be more xpensive to taste any good?
Do you think that the price is indicative of the quality of a bottle of wine?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080114/ts...
Answers: Interesting research into the 'price' of wine and its taste.
Are you a person who thinks a bottle of wine has to be more xpensive to taste any good?
Do you think that the price is indicative of the quality of a bottle of wine?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080114/ts...
This is really interesting research, although I am not suprised by it.
Similar research was carried out in 1996 using the 'budget' label branding in supermarkets.
Two groups of people were tested. One group were shown the packing and the other group not. Despite there being very little difference in the quality, taste and ingredients of the budget brands, the group who saw the packing chose the 'quality' brand as tasting better. The second group displayed random taste results, as no prices, packing or labels were given.
Marketing is a powerful thing.
Our minds are powerful things.
We can make ourselves believe that certain things are better quality depending on how they are marketed.
It's brilliant and scary all at the same time.
Beware - don't be fooled!
no i am not that keen on wine i like the cheap fizzy stuff like lambrini i also love asti tho that's not so cheap
Not always, but experienced wine tasters will be able to distinguish between cheap and expensive wines, and in the majority of cases, the expensive wines will be more complex characterful wines than the cheaper mass produced ones.
I've had some expensive wines that I've not thought much of, and some cheaper wines that are very good.
I suspect that if there wasn't much between two wines in the taste, if someone told me one was much more expensive than the other I probably would be fooled, but the wines would have to be both fairly similar and not thin or rough.
Yes I think I might well be fooled. However I know what I like and that rules over everything. With regard to champagne for example, I'm positive I'd prefer a cheaper champagne if it has pinot noir in it, as opposed to a more expensive white grape champagne. I prefer the former.
Hello Wine Lovers! I love Wine, but more than that I love the preparation to drink the wine. The right glass, pulling the cork out of the bottle. The smell of the wine. Even the beauty and color of the label. Sharing a bottle of wine with a friend is so enjoyable! It is not the price, but it is the color of the wine and the taste, you must enjoy it all. My lovely daughter-in-law gave me an electric wine bottle opener for Christmas!!! It means she does not like wine.
there has long been a significant element of snobbery in wine.. there are some people thant think because product A costs X and product B costs Y, and X is greater than Y then X must be better. LIke fashion there is no inherent reason why a so called designer label is better than a product form another manufacturer.
However as price escalates there is less risk of finding something which is awful. Personally Im not happy paying much more than ￡3..￡8 for a bottle of wine for myself, although if its a gift, especially as a thank you, then I'd happily sp[end a bit more than that, depending on the occasion upto say ￡15.. mebbe I'm a tightwad.
anythign where you have to be taught to appreciate the finer qualities smacks of prejudice and snobbery.
there have long been proof's that some cheap wines are far better than much more pricey wines.. the prime example is fizzy wines, some champagnes are very very expensive and actually taste worse than some sparkling wines.. that are made int he same manner, but with better quality grapes but because of EU diktat are not allowed to call themselves champagnes or indicate they are made int he same way as champagnes.. who cares.. let the fashion snobs go for the label.. I'll drink the fizzy stuff that I like.
like many things in life quality isn't directly associated with price. many so called quality products are produced in smaller quanities (either because they can't or won't change their production process) so they don't take advanatage of mor emodern efficent processes. they don't have critical mass in tersm of volume of sales... which means the overheads are not spread as far.
but deep down inside some of the quality wines may take years to develop ion the cask / bottle, take many generations to cultivate and are stuck in a time zone of years ago.
irresepective of all that.. drink what you feel comfortable with.
its a bit like buuying a computer or phone or MP3 player. some people are fashion victims, with too much money and a need to be seen to be flashy / trendy. they buy stuff from Apple or Sony, they pay over the odds often for inferior goods, but the label says Apple.. so it must be good. The canny consumer will buy a product form other manufacturers which are often more innovative and always cheaper. But if people want an Ipox.. thats their choice.. its called a market. Many people who buy Ipox's then bore the pants of their (possibly soon to be ex) friends because there player is so marvellous because it does X,Y or Z.. in reality they are trying to shore up their own opinion of self worth becuase trhey bought into the brand, rather than the product. The IPhone is a classical example, its not as good as competing brands, its offering nothing truly new or original, its just a very clever bit of repackaging and marketing, doing the traditional Apple approach of stealing other peoples ideas and putting it inside a very glitzy box, and charging an absolute fortune for it.
I don't care about the price or region - I care about whether or not it's a good wine! It's shallow and vain to think it must be good if it came from, say, France and cost more than 20$ per bottle.
I'm French, so I have been drinking wine since I was four years old. I grew up drinking the wine that my dad makes, and it is the best wine I have ever had! (And not because it's from my dad.)
The best blush wine I've had was mislabelled as a white and cost about 7$ for a bottle. It is delicious, and I have been trying to track it down ever since I had it a year ago! (I had it at a party, and could not remember which bottle it was in the morning.)
Also, I remember hearing that all of the Australian wines (which are often good wines) were ridiculously inexpensive for a while, because they had produced too many grapes! So, price really has nothing to do with quality.
I don't really think the price has much to do with taste or quality with wines. I have had some lovely wines which only cost under ￡5 and have tasted some awful ones which cost much more than that, just the same as I have had some awful ones for cheap and nice ones that are more expensive.
It's amazing what the brain is fooled to believe!
Generally speaking I think $12-20 bottles of wine are for the most part better than their cheap counterparts. Conversely though I've had several really expensive bottles of wine/champagne ($75-300) and was completely unmoved by them, at least not in a price vs. difference in quality sense.
Ultimately though if something is good it's good, I'm not going to discriminate taste based on price it's simply the way things worked out that many of my favorite wines are roughly $15.
That's as funny as people believing that a wine that comes in a punted bottle is automatically better, and that the size of the punt has anything to do with the quality of the wine.
Hmmm....what if you don't know the cost of the bottle? Will it taste the same? Blind tasting tests have come up with some interesting finds. More expensive is not always better.
My quest is the find the best, least expensive bottle and tell no one....and keep it all to myself! (kidding) In the end, it is all a matter of personal preference.
Currently, my favorite every day wine is around $12.00 (US) for a 1.5 liter bottle. I buy a few other bottles for special occasions and these are paired with specific foods.
If your objective is to impress someone with a well-known winery, then I vote for Opus One, Screaming Eagle or Silver Oak.
Slainte mhúr agad!
Iain