/ck/ - Food & Cooking

richfag here
I will answer any and all wine questions

richfag here
hit me with your dumbest wine questions and I will answer without being a dick

>>15038244
>Another study involved adding flavorless red food dye to white wine then gave it to 'world renowned' wine snobs.
the subjects in question were STUDENTS at a wine school, not professionals
every thread with you faggots
all we need is for someone to post megapurple and the judgement of paris then this thread can die the same way as every other one

Here are some law-driven facts:
>California is the largest purchaser of beet sugar in the world, with Caymus being the largest single winery purchaser. Beet sugar is used to sweeten wines.
>California has also lobbied HEAVILY to not be required to disclose what goes into their wine (ie mega purple, a fortified high-alcohol additive used to make wines pitch black)
>All of Europe has laws on how wine can and can't be processed, as well as what is and isn't allowed to be produced

Any californian wine under 20 dollars will be heavily manipulated with little exception. There are a handful of biodynamic wines that fall under 20 bucks, but most stuff at the grocery store won't be.

Everyone has their price ceiling, and it's funny how they always claim it's where wine stops changing. The truth is there are marginal improvements in quality and intensity all the way up to the multi-hundreds, but it's diminishing returns. Same with scotch, same with cars, same with mechanical watches. Don't be a retard and say there's literally no difference, because the same studies you like to throw around also say that most people can tell the difference between a high end and a low end wine, even if they don't know or can't articulate the difference.

Just copped these bad boys.