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[maxk] 28/4/2011 22:19

2009 Chianti from Lidle's, of all places...

It's really nice imo, cant believe it. £5 quid a bottle.


sorry dog, I know you'll be puking, but this stuff is even better than Blue Nun!

[bamboo2] 28/4/2011 21:52

taking of good value wine, the coop carmenere [chilean] is superb.
only drawbacks,
1, seems permanently sold out
2, one bottle is never enough



edit, if thats sold out, a bottle of the coop argentinian malbec, is also worth a try.

[bionicdog] 20/4/2011 18:59

Well said that man. The cheapest thing that I'll consider pouring down my neck is Oyster Bay. Currently on special at Waitrose. £45.55 a box.

[valhalla3] 20/4/2011 18:57

jacobs crrek n hardyz r lame i cant stand em, they all taste like cardbord an make u scrunch ur gob up lyke ur chewin a sour gobstoper. W=#

[chutes01] 20/4/2011 18:53

worth investing in English Wines Group, see ewg thread, large purchase by director this week, and the fizz is pretty decent, all the best.

[bionicdog] 20/4/2011 18:43

Riff raff.

[bionicdog] 14/4/2011 13:27

I accept the challenge.

[isis] 14/4/2011 10:55

In my own experience I select the best Wines for the early part of the evening as the taste buds abandon their finesse after the first bottle.
Often you cannot tell the difference between a five pound and a fifty pound bottle of plonk. Some may deny this but I'm sure if you did a supervised test all would be revealed.

[bionicdog] 14/4/2011 10:52

It was done in Scotland.
I think that most people can tell a nice wine when they taste it. The real lesson should be that some expensive wines are not nice.

[isis] 14/4/2011 09:10

Plonkers:-



Expensive wine and cheap plonk taste the same to most people
In a blind taste test, volunteers were unable to distinguish between expensive and cheap wine

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Ian Sample, science correspondent
The Guardian, Thursday 14 April 2011
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People fool themselves into thinking expensive wines taste better than cheap ones, says psychologist Richard Wiseman. Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian
An expensive wine may well have a full body, a delicate nose and good legs, but the odds are your brain will never know.

A survey of hundreds of drinkers found that on average people could tell good wine from plonk no more often than if they had simply guessed.

In the blind taste test, 578 people commented on a variety of red and white wines ranging from a £3.49 bottle of Claret to a £29.99 bottle of champagne. The researchers categorised inexpensive wines as costing £5 and less, while expensive bottles were £10 and more.

The study found that people correctly distinguished between cheap and expensive white wines only 53% of the time, and only 47% of the time for red wines. The overall result suggests a 50:50 chance of identifying a wine as expensive or cheap based on taste alone – the same odds as flipping a coin.

Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at Hertfordshire University, conducted the survey at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

"People just could not tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine," he said. "When you know the answer, you fool yourself into thinking you would be able to tell the difference, but most people simply can't."

All of the drinkers who took part in the survey were attending the science festival, but Wiseman claims the group was unlikely to be any worse at wine tasting than a cross-section of the general public.

"The real surprise is that the more expensive wines were double or three times the price of the cheaper ones. Normally when a product is that much more expensive, you would expect to be able to tell the difference," Wiseman said.

People scored best when deciding between two bottles of Pinot Grigio, with 59% correctly deciding which was which. The Claret, which cost either £3.49 or £15.99, fooled most people with only 39% correctly identifying which they had tasted.

In 2008, a study led by Adrian North, a psychologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, claimed that music helped boost the flavour of certain wines. North, who was commissioned by a Chilean winemaker, reported that Cabernet Sauvignon was most affected by "powerful and heavy" music, while Chardonnay benefited from "zingy and refreshing" sounds.

[bigbigdave] 31/3/2011 19:19

Oddbins in admin.

Shame, had some very decent wine from them over the last 25 years

[valhalla3] 11/3/2011 19:37

Nyce combo dog im on teh black sheep D=#

[bionicdog] 11/3/2011 19:28

Back to the NOP board with you Val.
I'm having Czech Bud followed by a Barossa shiraz.

[valhalla3] 11/3/2011 19:07

whats everyonez tipple 2nyte tehn? H=#

[valhalla3] 28/2/2011 07:06

thanks enia I=#

[jazza] 27/2/2011 22:09

or better still..

[maxk] 27/2/2011 22:02

Talking of Wagner...

[valhalla3] 27/2/2011 19:05

enia anything gud about my name? O=#

[enia] 27/2/2011 18:36

i just checked with a friend iN L.A. and they were not copying you but one of the owners of the vineyard is french and his american partners made fun of him thus the frog in the name but they probably stole the bionic from you !!!

[bionicdog] 27/2/2011 17:46

They tried to nick the name off me , but I wouldn't let them , so them used frog instead. I've been bionicdog since 1999 and I think that they started in 2000.

[enia] 27/2/2011 15:34

bionic dog is it a coincidence that your name is so similar to one of the best californian wines bionic frog by cayuse ? ihave some bottles and it is unbelievably good !!