On 23/06/2013 23:09, Mark Lipton wrote:

> This article, which contains little in the way of new information, is
> really taking swipes at a straw man. How many people, beyond the
> readership of the Wine Spec perhaps, really hold to the notion of
> intrinsic "quality" in wine or the myth of objectivity in tasting.

Certainly not me. I had heard of all these studies before, and more!.

But a lot of people have not. And given how some experts like to
project their image, I think people in general have a reasonable
expectations that they should be able to perform better than they can.

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