“The resonance density sounds watered down. Were these grapes picked in the rainy season?”

You can tell at what altitude the terrior was tilled due to minute variances in air pressure in the environment that make its way into the fruit. The feeling is similar to, if not characteristic of, the feeling of ears popping in an aircraft climbing to cruising altitude. It’s nuanced, subtle even, but to the trained aural canal, not difficult to discern.

This is what I don’t get about wine snobs-

If it tastes good, who cares how old or new it is, what sort of grapes it comes from, what it was aged in, how much it costs, etc.? Just find a wine you like the taste of and drink that one. And yet they seem to think there’s more to it than ‘I like how this tastes.’

In fairness, if someone did this I’d probably do the same… Not because I thought there was anything to it or to fit in, but I’d think “huh, now I wonder what it sounds like. Does it make a cool sound?”

I don’t think it’s group think so much as it’s a social learning behavior. If you see someone do something confidently and appear satisfied with the result, you’ll start to wonder if you should try it… It seems to be working for them

S-staff tastings? 😳

No one was kicked out of a winery for laughing too hard.

So I’ve done a lot of world traveling. Now when I’m with my friends, who have never left the US, I ironically act snobby about dumb shit. “This pizza isn’t as good as the pizza I had in Italy” “This isn’t as good as German beer” “This sushi isn’t like the real sushi in Japan” “if this spider was from Australia I’d already be dead”