Opinion | How We Are Ruining America Progressive Boomers have spoiled America, on that, we agree. As to whether middle America is put off by big words like soppressata, or coppa, I reserve judgment. More commonly middle America is put off by the price of an $18 sandwich which they could make at home for less than a buck. Middle Americans are frugal and well mannered. Brooks and his coterie of snug sphinctered dilettantes love to spend large on something silly like a sandwich or bottle of wine believing they their refined tastes demand this excess. They do not; they cannot tell the difference between imported Coppa and American Coppa. Likewise, they cannot taste the difference between plonk and "fine" wine. Hell, they often can't tell a white wine colored red in a tasting "flight" of red wines. Wine-tasting: it's junk science More below. An Examination of Judge Reliability at a major U.S. Wine Competition* | Journal of Wine Economics | Cambridge Core
An Analysis of the Concordance Among 13 U.S. Wine Competitions* | Journal of Wine Economics | Cambridge Core How Expert are “Expert” Wine Judges?* | Journal of Wine Economics | Cambridge Core "'The results are disturbing," says Hodgson from the Fieldbrook Winery in Humboldt County, described by its owner as a rural paradise. "Only about 10% of judges are consistent and those judges who were consistent one year were ordinary the next year. "Chance has a great deal to do with the awards that wines win.'" Accept that wine tasting is a beauty pageant, and move on. It is best to find well-priced wines which you like, then have a friend help you do an unbiased, personal tasting of 3 or 4 wines. You can use the advice of the wine "experts" up to this point, but you need to taste the wines yourself in an unbiased, double blind setting. Have the friend pour the glasses of wine and number them, then without seeing or talking to the person sit down and taste the wines. Eat something and repeat the process an hour later, but with the wines numbered with different numbers also alter the numerical order. Repeat the process an hour after that. Taste, don't guzzle! Make notes and numerically rank the wines, any wine that jumps out at you is your house wine. My current house wine is The Original House Wine, American Red Wine Blend 2014. It is as advertised Big, bold, jammy & smooth. Oh, and it is very inexpensive, I think I pay all of $7.50 each at the case price. Wife prefers H3 Cabernet, it is a bit more expensive, but there is no accounting for taste! Most of these dubiously "refined" palates can only taste the most coarse differences between salumi, meaning they will be able to tell the difference between spicy coppa and commercial Genoa Salami, but they have great difficulty differentiating between coppas, or between soppressata, or anything else. Capocollo, Mortadella, Prosciutto, Salami: It's All Salumi! A Salumi Glossary - Wine4Food I am with David Rosengarten on this one, I like coppa, and soppressata, although there are many other dry Italian salumi I like as well. Brooks might want to drop down one buttplug size; I guess his plug is one size too large. Ok, all, feel free to pile on and rip me a new one about how I am drinking plonk, and that I know nothing about nothing. Although if my high school English teacher is correct, that means I know everything about everything or something!
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