https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2018/09/how-good-is-our-sense-of-taste-do-we-even-know-what-we-actually-like/ Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:48:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2018/09/how-good-is-our-sense-of-taste-do-we-even-know-what-we-actually-like/#comment-24792 Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:48:21 +0000 https://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=2517#comment-24792 It would be interesting to see a taste test of highly rated wines–whether cheap or expensive. I’m not an expert, but know a bit about wine, and looking at this list I’m not sure I’d choose *any* of these wines for what wine people call QPR (standard quality to price ratio, or “bang for the buck.”) This is assuming I’d drink pinot grigio at all, which I wouldn’t. The idea that most people don’t actually like pinot seems pretty solid to me; Sideways is still typically all anyone knows about wine. Remember, though, that Miles’s Cheval is in fact Merlot.
On the other hand, as a native of Atlanta, I have an extremely refined palate when it comes to identifying Coke. (Tip: Coke is lime-based, Pepsi orange-based.) In the eighth grade, a local business consultant came in and did the Coke vs. Pepsi blind test, hoping to teach us about the power of branding/marketing. She was appalled when three-quarters of the class correctly identified Coke. She was from Chicago IIRC.

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