Wine O'Clock

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[timbax]

Green looks so disappointed that Blue didn't respond hysterically. I love that.

When indifference beats crazy. ❤

[thassalantekreskel]

Even wine experts can't tell the difference between wines. Famously, at a blind wine tasting contest in which California wines were competing for the first time, one of the judges tasted a wine and audibly proclaimed, "Ahh, back to France!" In truth, he was tasting the California wine, which ended up winning. Similar "mistakes" occur regularly when "cheap" wine is put up against the expensive labels. All you can do is sample a bajillion wines, resign yourself to the fact that you'll probably hate 2/3 of them or more, but then you get to enjoy the seriously delicious wines you find that you like. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have very different tastes in wine, so there's no real guide to finding the good ones except to try them. However, once you find some you like, it is possible to get help finding similar ones.

[RPGfreakiod]

Reminds me of an episode of Lupin the 3rd where they stole a fancy old wine for a ceremony and replaced with some regular store wine. The people at the ceremony enjoyed the wine, while Lupin and his gang drank the old wine and thought it tasted horrible and rotten.

[curtischung]

This is good commentary on how wine/alcohol tastes to people who aren't used to it/don't like the taste. My uncle once gave me what was apparently very expensive and good Scotch whiskey for me to taste. I tried it and couldn't help but think that he poured me a glass of gasoline on accident because that was the impression I got after drinking it.

[groowanderer]

I thought ALL wines were made that way. Certainly tastes like it.

[nicolasgiard]

I remember once at a meeting, our boss ordered an aged wine of a place i cant remember realy, it was a pricy bottle (not ultra pricy but still kinda pricy). Basicly he shared the bottle all round the table. It tasted like shit, like it had an orible after taste. Co workers and I didnt wanted to offend our boss so when he asked if we like it we said yea it pretty good and have a unique old taste. Many days later, we ended up talking about last meeting and the subject of this said wine arrived, our boss told us he hated that wine and we kinda confessed it tasted horrible. So yea, overall, no one liked it :P

[vary]

Oh, so that's how a fine wine is made...

[captainpalegg]

1) Leave a bottle of Welch’s grape juice out on the counter for 2 weeks.
2) Pour it into an empty bottle of some high-end French or Australian wine.
3) Serve it to a self-proclaimed wine snob and see if you can fool them.

[SheldonT.]

A famous story of a Sommelier tasting a Burgundy wine which tasting notes are of earthy hay, known as "Barnyard". The excited winetaster found a perfect example of this and exclaimed "This wine tastes like shit!"

[tanksnuthin]

100% all red wine tastes the same to me too no matter how many assholes i put it in

[mihaleben]

Giant fox: all wine will most likely cause distruxtion if inserted in my mouth

[caffeineadvocate]

I usually see a doctor if my wine comes out red…

[dragonanimekid]

Imagine having a clock that at certain times pours you a specific wine for that time

[burningfox]

There’s actually an Irish song like this about some guy who doesn’t like beer. In it, his mates give him a glass of urine as a prank and the guy said it’s the best beer he’s had.

[midimusicforever]

Well I mean, foot sweat is an important component in wine anyway...

[bobthegoat]

My hypothesis is that wine actually doesn't taste good, but we just love to like it because the brain finds out, it gets happy after drinking it.

[Kurotaku]

Rly wan't to say a big thank you to the contributor who always put in the SponsorBlock timestamps!

[Bananajoa]

as someone who works at a wine brewery, i can confirm that wine is made that way.

[natsu]

I guess the wine was called a butt blast 2022

[howHumam]

Wine is like art. It takes skill to make something specific but beyond that its all about perception and marketing.