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Re: One point of clarification

Barrel tastings are generally informal and not analytical. They're used to help sell wine. And pros do informal tastings, too, but when things are serious, glasses are unmarked.

Label-awareness has little to do with it- I'm an alumnus of the legendary Wine Box, where one quickly learns to not be swayed by labels, but I'm fully aware that as a human being with a human brain (rather than being a gas chromatograph), all sorts of unconscious biases creep in to my analyses. One cannot put aside unconscious biases- they are, after all, unconscious, n'est-ce pas?

There's a pretty interesting bit in the recent bio of Robert Parker ("The Emporer of Wine") on The Callahan Challenge. It's amusing and worth a read. I was there and was, in fact, one of the writer's sources. I didn't do too terribly well, but my cooking/drinking partner scored 27/29 correct and nailed four or five wines dead-on.

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