{"id":62,"date":"2008-07-17T06:59:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T11:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/what-makes-a-great-wine\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T06:59:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T11:59:34","slug":"what-makes-a-great-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/what-makes-a-great-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a great wine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/16\/cheap-wine\/\">a post on the Freakonomics blog about wines<\/a>, and people&#8217;s abilities to tell the difference between good and bad wines. I love Levitt for his willingness to piss people off in the pursuit of truth (read the part about the scholar who stormed out of the room!) Anyways, there was a large study done, and the conclusion is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-economics.org\/workingpapers\/AAWE_WP16.pdf\">people generally can&#8217;t taste the difference between &#8220;great&#8221; wines, and ordinary wines<\/a> (link goes to original paper).<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve had some reasonably pricey bottles of wine. And I&#8217;ve enjoyed some of them. I appreciate that there&#8217;s people who really take care of their vines; who pick the best grapes; who use classic equipment and methods. But, I&#8217;ve also had bottles that cost under $20 and tasted quite nice.<\/p>\n<p>Generally (and with no expertise to back this up) I think the knowledge of how to produce a decent wine has spread very far, and snobbery is mostly a hangover from the past few hundred years when lots of wines were actually quite bad.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I know the true secret behind great wine. It&#8217;s that any average wine becomes great when you drink it with great people. Salud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a post on the Freakonomics blog about wines, and people&#8217;s abilities to tell the difference between good and bad wines. I love Levitt for his willingness to piss people off in the pursuit of truth (read the part about the scholar who stormed out of the room!) Anyways, there was a large study done, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/what-makes-a-great-wine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What makes a great wine?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,88,31],"tags":[176,173,175,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}