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Thanks for clearing up your meaning. Double blind actually has a different meaning in the wine world, but we do everything weird. Your definition is the one I will usehere.

The sort of analytical tasting you ask about is done routinely. For example, someone wishing to judge in several of the major competitions must be able to demonstrate in a blind tasting that they can detect and identify threshold elements like volatile acidity, TCA taint, brettanomyces, and the like via spiked samples at known concentrations. Yes, ABX is used, but it's one of several analytical tasting formats. Duo-trio and triangle are even more common.

In my own work (wine packaging), we are specifically looking for differences in most of our tests, not just better/worse. Our sensory panel consists of people who, under double blind conditions, are reliably able to distinguish the differences we're testing for. And any test that we or our customers would take seriously must be run double blind.


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