+Makenna Dickson From my perspective, these videos seem to have a theme of "don't believe everything you hear" so, that would be an interesting video

+flyguy3211 true but I actually go to the sources and I'm sure others do too

+Marty Mcfly It would be hilarious if the sources were from the Onion or some other satirical news site.

Maybe it's illegal or something

There is a programme in the UK called QI, many segments of which are exactly was you describe.

+Nater K - Congratulations. You're choosing the wine with the highest profit margin for the restaurant. In fact, you're usually ordering wine that has a cheaper wholesale price than the "cheapest" wine on the menu. consumerist.com/2013/12/06/the-second-cheapest-bottle-of-wine-has-the-highest-mark-up-other-restaurant-secrets/

+Nater K I remember that from an episode of The Simpsons.

+Nater K Barefoot wines has good ethics as a company!

I was going to comment that. 😐

+Scott Levine that source is obviously reliable

that's what she said

+nooneimportant 132 The Office

Doesn't 'dry' mean 'not sweet'? When all the sugars have been converted into alcohol, it is 'dry'?

Is wine wet?

TheDaklon you get out

Watchdog Goon Emily is arnold

Watchdog Goon then WTF 101 makes her look like the offspring of doctor who rick Sanchez and miss frizzle

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Then it needs a bendy straw

+COOKIES!!!! Well i had my ex she was thin as a straw and bendy so idk

Wine is just the older version of juice.

Kael M They don't call it mommy juice for nothing!😄

@Gringo Green You make being a mom sound so depressing.

+BattMarn Not a bad way to explore wine :P

Yep that's pretty much how all my mates who are into wine do it. Try a whole bunch and use an app to record what they think of it while they're drinking it.

One of my favorite wines in the world is $7.99 a bottle rose. Would be considered a "cheap table wine" by so many people, but is *so incredibly good*!

Sort of? Find wines that have descriptors on the back label so you can drink along to it. Especially ones with notes on the nose and palate of the wine. My range for purchasing wines is usually $13.00 - &20.00 anything more expensive should be bought with a bit of info on the side to explain it. Origin, vinification details, etc. Happy exploring!

With sandwiches too! Yum yum

Every month at least.

I NEED a GIF of that graphic!!! I mean, just for random daily use.

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IT'S A PRANK, BRO!

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Not really, but it's definitely a tendency among art "collectors". The beauty of a piece of art isn't necessarily in what's painted on the canvas, it can just as well be the story behind it or the meaning that the artist is trying to express through the piece. Art doesn't have to be a great detailed painting like The Last Supper, to be effective. Last time I was in a gallery the most effective and emotional painting, to me, was a painting that was simply a collection of black dots on a white canvas, without a description it would've meant nothing, but every single dot on the canvas represented a fatality in the Syrian civil war, and that piece of information made it incredibly effective. There's definitely art snobs out there who ruin the image of art enthusiasts and artists alike, but for every art snob there's also an art illiterate.

I've read murder mysteries where a killer would buy up an "up and comer's" artwork, then kill him. The value of the art *skyrockets* (B/C there will be no more new work to drive down the price)...then killer collects profit.

Really, part of the reason it's become more complex lately is that back in the day, the main determiner of artistic ability was your skill at capturing life (because that's the main reason you'd want a painter on hand, to get a picture of yourself or a cool event). But then cameras came along, and suddenly "skill" became "I'm ALMOST as good as a machine but not quite", and artists became a lot more experimental to stand out. And then movements like abstraction and dada came along, and they prized the novel and interesting artists over the technically competent but uncreative ones.

I guess I like heavier bodies then

Yeah, yeah, you may try to define it. But if later on, the so called experts can't recognize it, or tell each other wine bodies apart, then it's all a subjective perception that maybe we all experience in different degrees.

​@@robertocaesarno. Adam is a chronically wrong person. This is like saying a guiness and Miller lite are the same. It's all made up. No, things like full body and dry are absolutely recognizable differences.

How can you tell? I love his hair!

Oh, I asked before the end. Got me!

+PRISCILLA KWARTENG post means when everything is done all they have to do is edit

+PRISCILLA KWARTENG Post = after. post game (after the main contents or the entire thing) post mortem (after death). Just a fancy word for after.

He looks like Bagon.

True, but to be fair, they were Oeneology students.

Nah... Wine Experts are just rich people who are too bored being rich and decided to make life more complicated.

​@@pongangelo2048I used to not drink wine because of the 100% predictable headache and hangover. I tried stuff that's just a little more expensive, like 30 dollars and up, and it was a whole different experience. To pretend there is no difference between a grand cru and boxed wine is just ridiculous. But honestly, Adam is so frequently wrong, that this doesn't surprise me.

You make a good point. Another flaw in the study that I noticed was the dye. You can't dye something without adding some kind of flavor. On top of that, these aren't very reliable results. Citing a single study means that there is very little research backing the claim that wine experts "fake" being able to tell a difference.

@hannahmoorea8693 Oh really? So if you dye white wine with the red color it tastes like Bordeaux 2007? Lmao There are people who have unbelievable sense of taste and can differentiate wines, but that’s like 0.0001% of the population, 99.9% of people don’t have a clue. I used to work as a waiter in one restaurant, and my ex girlfriend was into wines and that whole sharade. So once we got one sommelier as a guest. His wife asked if they can taste 2 different wines. To prove a point I poured one wine in all 4 glasses and gave them to taste it. After trying out “both” wines they started discussing which one to get, she liked the “first” one and he liked the “second” Anyone who worked as waiter/bartender knows what I’m talking about. You wouldn’t believe how many times you don’t get the glass of wine you ordered because they don’t have it at the moment, but they literally will give you other wine because they know you’ll think it’s the one you ordered.

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There's no such thing as a wine expert. There's just people who like wine and then there are people who glorify it in the most pretentious way possible.

I thought he was the record label guy from I'm in the Band.

wasn't he also in pitch perfect?

+Thomas Hall yea, he was a judge

Bluesy?

+50% Banana (It's DNA idiots) Auto correct, bluddy?

***** Thank you!

+Phronesis7 with you on this one

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+P kyle (M0RF3U5) Well it depends on the purpose for tasting, doesn't it? If one is tasting for fun, it's not technical. If one is analyzing a wine in a blind tasting, it's far more technical than you're even aware.

***** Wine tasting's point is "ego masturbation" you claim? Gee, that sure is an interesting pontification. I've never before come across that take on the subject. However, it seems you're a bit lost on the subject of wine. Perhaps you should simply stick to the masturbation part, as that's clearly your forte. "Nevermind that that’s absolutely not the point," What wonderful writing skills. "That That's..." Amazing.

No, the is that there's no real expert in tasting burgers just like there's no real expert in tasting wine. You just like what you like, there's no need to consult to an expert what wines you should like. You may ask help from people with more experience tasting different burgers/wine, to help you find what you might like, but in the end it's all about you. If cheap burgers from Maccas tastes better for you than this fancy burger in the high class bistro, who cares what the expert says.

+yvrelna You're fairly confused. A person "liking" what he or she likes is irrelevant. Determining what one "likes" and the ability to analyze a wine are two different things. If you really believe that the tasting and analyzing wine is NOT a skill that can be taught, practiced and developed, you're simply in the dark.

+Aubrey Oleandereie Iced wine?? You philistine :o I only drink when I dine!! You don't have a tongue like mine :P

+Aubrey Oleandereie You and I are polar opposites. I can only drink dry wine for some reason. The rest doesn't appeal to me.

You may say so. But I'd pay real money to see you pass those wine pranks.

You just figured that out? xD

Wine = grape juice gone meh

Your Mighty Boosh profile picture is amazing!!

If by "bad" you mean "Awesome," then yeah...

fresh grape juice > wine

I don't care if you like wine or not, but unfermented grape juice is pretty disgusting. Cloyingly sweet, yet bitter from the tannins. Fermenting it not only gets rid of all that sugar (by turning it into yummy booze!)...but it also gets rid of most of the tannin bitterness (if it's GOOD wine).

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Did you mean kegs? Or what does legs have to do with wine?

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@@furter189 If you swirl a wine around in a glass then stop swirling, you can see drops of liquid running down the inside of the glass. The running drops are called legs. The amount of legs and speed at which the legs move can tell you about the wine, such as its alcohol content.

@@TheHenranMan And here I was thinking swirling a wine was just for posers wanting to look cool.

Exactly. False expectations were created by 'experts' so people would think they have taste.

yep...

Not really. All the terms they use do have meaning. Of course many wine snobs are faking because they want to seem high class. But a "dry" wine is one that isn't sweet. One that is more "tart" is more sour. "Off-Dry" is not quite dry, but not really sweet. A very slight hint of sweetness. Something being "full-bodied" is referring to how viscous the wine actually is. You can get a lighter wine where it's like skim milk, or a more full bodied wine where it's closer to a high fat cream. You can really see this effect with a bottle of Sauternes where it's like syrup, really really viscous and full bodied compared to other white wines like a dry Riesling. They're both white wines. As for flavour of wine, there's merit in that too. Reds can have flavours and smells of blackcurrants, tobacco, oak, smoke, vanilla, blackberry, raspberry. All depends on the type of grape used and type of wine and growing conditions and oaking conditions and ageing conditions. Similar with whites but with different flavours. I personally can't smell much more than the obvious 2 or 3 different smells in a wine, but there are others who certainly can pickup the less pronounced scents. So it's not so much placebo, but also good training and knowing what to look for.

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Michael Zhang SHORTEN YOUR COMENT!!!!

Precisely.

I don't like Nutella …

you're telling me now?

Please don't let me start on Nutella.

especially for people with nut allergies, it makes for an unforgettable day every time!

Even so they're wine experts, if they cant tell that they're drinking that same thing then they aren't experts. If they thought they we're being tricked then they should've relied on they're almighty tastbuds.

+mypupismup so basically proves that wines taste good because they learned from someone else that they are supposed to taste good.

+Young Fazer If our social psychology can affect how we perceive tastes then nobody would notice that they gave the same wine twice. What would be a better experiment would be to have a lot of wine experts give a scale from 1 to 10 on a number of characteristics (dryness, sweetness, overall quality etc) and see if the results were close or very scattered. If the scores seemed utterly random then you could call them hacks and if they all mostly said the same things about the same wines then there is some merit.

+Odin Thorsen No, because then they would recognise flavour difference and associate it with a price that indicates "quality". This test rather was aimed to see if they can pick up on differences and similarities within one type as they claim to be capable of doing.

WillieLongEel You could do this type of thing with anything, I've seen videos where they do it with cakes, make 2 cakes with the same batter in different forms, sell slices from one for 10$ and slices from the other for 20$ and when random people on the street got to taste both they all insisted the 20$ one were much higher quality, more moist, no poor aftertaste etc etc. If you assume that anything can be made to taste differently based on expectations then serving the same thing (wine or cake or anything else) twice while giving the impression that they are different, will produce this kind of result. Just because I can't tell that the 10$ cake and 20$ cake is the same, doesn't mean that I don't actually know a great cake from a bad one. It just means that my subconscious can affect how I interpret taste.

She was faking it cause she was scared to hurt your feelings :P

When I read your comment I got a chemotherapy ad Lol!

You mean 205

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Maybe 218?

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Not to mention there are several objective qualities that can easily come across in a wine review (and are helpful if you know what you like, although that ties in to his main point), such as remaining sugars (aka sweet vs dry wine), tannins and oakiness (i.e if it has been stored in barrels and for how long if so). Also, while I don't know how US wine generally differs geographically, you can make pretty educated guesses on European wine simply based off the above criteria and knowing how it's made in different regions. Still, if this show has taught me anything, it's that a lot of people take things that are clearly opinions and accept them as facts without question.

It's simple, a placebo effect, even experienced sommeliers can be tricked by what they are seeing, I myself have tried the 'white wine painted red' blind tasting and I could swear that it tasted and smelled tannic, the reason it did, was because my brain is hardwired to tannins in red wine, so when I saw a red wine my sense of sight overruled my other senses and I smelled illusionary tannins.

What Mattias said is true. If you think you're eating/drinking something you're not, your brain fucks with you easily. It doesn't completely fool you, but it can throw you off noticeably. And since wines don't have a huge difference in taste, no wonder anyone can get fooled.

A bit late to the party but the study by Frederic Brochet was performed on students (who were not even sommelier students, just science students). Not only that, but the goal of the study was NOT to show that experts can't make the difference between white and red wine but that context can greatly influence the perception. The study was meant to fool the students, they were asked one week to taste a red and a white and make a list of words to describe both, the next week they were asked to reuse that list of words to describe the wines but this time it was a white one and a white colored in red, served at red wine temperature. The author of the study himself talked about how medias misinterpreted his results (potentially on purpose) to sell more paper. There are other studies on the same subject like experiments where people are shown a video of a car accident then asked to evaluate the speed at which the vehicle crashed. Depending on the wording of the question (aka, at what speed did the vehicle "slammed/bumped/hit" into the wall?), the estimated speed was vastly different. The goal of the study was to highlight how context is a great source of confusion factor and that those confusion factors must be identified before conducting studies to be avoided.

All wine tastes stupid and is for trashy white suburban yuppies.

Looking at your profile pic, you are a wine snob aren't you?

The problem is that taste is entirely subjective, so whether or not it's "good", people taste things differently so it doesn't really matter.

Alucian Lucida but now you’re arguing quality vs ingredients. Fact is that within the three levels of sommelier certifications, you have to detect ingredients. Taste may be subjective from person to person, but what’s in it isn’t. Some people can pick them up, and others just don’t have the nose or palette.

@@amanrob The thing is, does it really matter? They learn and train themselves over years, if not decades, to taste things no one else can so that they can pass a test? I'm not saying it's meaningless, but what does it matter if no one else can taste it the same way you do?

@@icykarma2122 other people can taste them, but the experts can articulate the differences. They can predict more accurately the best pairings and matches for different palettes. A true master sommelier can tell when you're a novice or casual drinker and know you'll want simpler and less expensive wines while more experienced ones will appreciate the subtle differences more. The overall point here being that while Adam may be right that a lot of the average restaurant sommeliers and wine snobs may be faking it... there are experts and connoisseurs who can, and do, appreciate the differences.

+Tyler Dolezal You would think so. But learning the art of bsing in general is not that easy. I am sure that trained expert wine tester can discern the region and origin by taste based on certain markers, but that is probably about it. It would not surprise me if quite a few higher level expert were used in the study. As this wine tasting expert thing has been disputed for a long time now. I think for several decades even.

Read the study if you're skeptic. They really were expert sommeliers

I didn't get it.

I didn't get it, please tell me what it means.

Aeon Thanatos Ford Coppola is one of the Most Acclaimed Directors in Cinema you might have seen one of his Movies They're all Classics He Directed Apocalypse Now , Dracula, The Outsiders but he's Mostly Famous for The Godfather and The Godfather 2 that's y the wine tastes like the godfather !

Isaac Splinker Oooohhhh!!!!

It wasn't funny, at all. Also, stop capitalizing every word Lyke A 12 year Old Gurl Man.

+PlasmaMongoose fermentation is a controlled spoilage

Jorge Libs YUP!

+Sam “OfficialNerdsUnite” Lauer How do you know which country he was referring to?

+Adeptus Forge What the video was saying that the description are not correct and that they are made up bs as well.

they should have some cheese with that wine.

+Ohad Balash If the article is reliable and written by an expert, then it's probably based on the actual study.

Shiny Wobbuffet its still better to cite the study. an article could be written by a cave troll. or worse. a feminist.

Ohad Balash With proper evaluation, you can figure out whether an article is credible or not. Not everything on the Internet is written by idiots.

actually I just finished with speech class in college. We were taught that as long as you verbally cite your sources it's OK, but we were required to write out our speech first and have a citation page. When you verbally cite you must have the date of the source, the name of the creator of the article, and name of the article.

***** i am not a wine expert. nor would i want to be. but when you state things to be true. and you cite a source. an article someone wrote is about as good as a roll of toilet paper someone scribbled on to.

Okay, that explains the red/white experiment, but what about the expensive/inexpensive experiment? I highly doubt your brain can be hard wired to think "Expensive, it must be good, and cheap, it must be bad."

@@stephenschiffman5940 That would just be bias really. Something that would only fool a snobs perception.

Yes that's exactly what the point of the experiment was. Their judgements were not objective, but rather prejudiced and sham. Sommeliers are just alcoholics trying to make a living out of it

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John Michael Higgins

Source?

@@MidnightAssass1n His ass.

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