George Leppla wrote:
> Dimitri wrote:
>
>> One time on an anniversary trip I had purchased some Inglenook Cab that
>> at the time it was 7 to 10 years old - stored it and forgot it. Some 15
>> years later I took the bottle on another anniversary trip. Before
>> opening it I checked the price - it had gone to $350.00 - I drank it
>> anyway - it was very good but I am incapable of appreciating a $350.00
>> bottle of wine.
>
> Me too. I can't tell the difference between a $3 bottle and a $300
> bottle of wine.

Your story says you don't like either beer or wine. No matter you
aren't interested in differences in quality.

I'm fussy about beer and I only want the good stuff. For wine I can
tell the difference in quality but I'm not fussy about it so I don't
much care. I've had $3 wines and $300 dollar wines. I can tell the
difference. I free the performance curve is worse than logrythmic. I
don't know if that means I don't appreciate good wines or not.

For beers I'm happy to pay the much higher price for the very best, but
it's rare to find a bottle of beer/ale for over $20. Drinking only one
every week or so that sort of price on a beer doesn't bother me.
Drinking only a bottle of wine or two a year the $300 price range is
extreme enough for me tha tit has been a few decades since I've sprung
for the best.

Next up - Extremely good cognac. But for about 25 years I've been
saying a $200 bottle of cognac is next in line and it still hasn't
happened again. Must be too low on my priorities to happen any time
soon. Yet next month I'm likely to buy another $20 bottle of fine ale.