[dejv]

My pet peeve with all of those studies is who they consider as an expert. It is usually adhoc random group of enology students.

There is great video of guy trying to reconstruct red wine from whites + coloring and serving it to master of wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN83j5ZOUm0

And there are a lot of other tricks and blind tasting sessions in his channel. This is how expert taster works.

[rasz]

>There is great video of guy trying to reconstruct red wine from whites + coloring and serving it to master of wine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN83j5ZOUm0

Whats the point of a wine? looking at it or tasting it? Dude recognized its colored before even tasting it, or rather strictly without tasting it. Would he be able to do this without looking at it?

[dejv]

Yes, he actually explain that during tasting: when you smell white wine you start to be describing it by white wine vocabulary, when you smell red wine you start using those. The case of being skilled taster is being able to recognize when something is off.

[darkwater]

But the looks and the smells are part of the drinking experience as the flavors (unless you just want to get drunk).