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In Reply to: No, I'm not making that up (long) posted by Jim Austin on October 21, 2005 at 06:49:03:
I've lived in Northern California wine country for five years. I enjoy wines, with food and by themselves, in company and in private, simple and complex. When I first moved here, I found a vigorous wine-appreciation culture, which includes classes at the local junior college, the local parks-and-recreation department, and several annual public celebrations.The largest of the celebrations is part of the Sonoma County Harvest Fair. It involves blind tasting of hundreds of local wines by a large panel of judges, who are engaged at many levels of the wine industry. These judges approach the wines in subgroups by varietal, award medals within each subgroup, then award a sweepstakes medal for the 'best' red and white wines from all the entries.
This takes place before the fair, and the public is able to taste the entries during the fair.
What I've found is that the medal winners, and especially the sweepstakes winners, are coarse but punchy wines, while better examples ('better' in a broad sense of balance, complexity, consistency, follow-through, etc.) can be found among the non-medal-winning entrants available at the public tasting sessions. I've been to enough of these events, and with friends who find similar things, to draw this conclusion with confidence.
What it means is that the judges become fatigued and are unable to evaluate all the entrants fairly. They do not swallow during tasting sessions (they would die if they did!), but they are simple unable to respond consistently to the possible variations in aroma and taste that a few varieties of grapes can generate.
I think the same problem exists with audio comparisons. Listening fatigue comes on more rapidly than we think. Whatever protocol is used is faulty if it does not take this phenomenon into account.
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Follow Ups
- The wine-tasting analogy...(long) - Al Sekela 12:02:09 10/21/05 (5)
- Re: The wine-tasting analogy...(long) - Mahatma Kane Jeeves 17:42:44 10/21/05 (3)
- Huh? - Al Sekela 11:52:36 10/22/05 (0)
- Klanggg g g g g g gg g ! - Silver Eared John 23:12:04 10/21/05 (1)
- Re: DeLille - Mahatma Kane Jeeves 04:01:38 10/22/05 (0)
- Furthermore... - Jim Austin 12:32:31 10/21/05 (0)
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