/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10771681
>wines taste the same
The reason this has happened is that tyrannical 100 point scoring systems have caused a score chasing phenomenon that forces all wine producers to try and make their wine taste like whatever style some fat, golf-playing suburban jackass thinks is good. It's the same thing that happened to beer, causing IPAs to flood the market and drown out any attempts at restraint. And since plebs are easily confused by PDO terminology instead they flee to New World crap sold by varietal name, except that New World producers have nothing but contempt for typicity or varietal character, so you end up with merlot that tastes like cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir that tastes like syrah. People now buy wine based on "what grape are you" facebook quizzes, ask anyone why they like pinot noir and they'll just say "well, sideways says it's good", even if they've never actually tasted a pinot noir that tastes like pinot noir. Pic related, he made millions off of people like you, people who think that typicity is a libtard conspiracy to make you feel uncultured but still want to look "sophisticated" by drinking a grape that mass media says is "sophisticated".

tl;dr it's by design