Double blind tasting leaves wine professionals in the dark

Jim Gordon recounts an interesting little blind-tasting experiment at last week’s Symposium for Professional Wine Writers

Could you tell a Merlot from a Cabernet from a Syrah in a blind tasting? Faced with three unmarked glasses from three brown-bagged bottles with no clues other than a Napa Valley origin, I couldn’t. Neither could food and wine authority David Rosengarten, Chicago Tribune wine writer Bill Daley and editorial director of Curtco Media, Brett Anderson.

… Nobody in the room of 25 or so got all the varietals correct.

Gordon explains what happened and what he took away from the experiment.

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