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xiphiasOne of the other guests mentioned that, at another party she was at, someone had set up a party challenge, that, you take one red wine and one white wine, at the same temperature, and you see if people can tell them apart.
I thought that sounded TRULY strange, that people might NOT be able to, so I tried it this afternoon, with the cheap wine I keep around for cooking. (I don't drink much wine, but I do cook with it. So I basically just have table wines around. Paul Mason jug wines, actually. You can drink them. They're not horrid. And they're fine for cooking with. And you don't feel bad about cooking with them.)
And I realized what it is. Or at least, what I THINK it is. Obviously, all wines taste hugely different from each other. But there's not really one way that RED wines taste vs. another way that WHITE wines taste. I mean, there are differences between the categories, but they're really dwarfed by the differences between the specific wines. At least, that's what I think it is. So, unless you can recognize what wine you're drinking, there's not really that much to guess whether the SPECIFIC wine you're drinking is red or white.
Anyway, that's my guess, knowing as little as I do about wine.
I thought that sounded TRULY strange, that people might NOT be able to, so I tried it this afternoon, with the cheap wine I keep around for cooking. (I don't drink much wine, but I do cook with it. So I basically just have table wines around. Paul Mason jug wines, actually. You can drink them. They're not horrid. And they're fine for cooking with. And you don't feel bad about cooking with them.)
And I realized what it is. Or at least, what I THINK it is. Obviously, all wines taste hugely different from each other. But there's not really one way that RED wines taste vs. another way that WHITE wines taste. I mean, there are differences between the categories, but they're really dwarfed by the differences between the specific wines. At least, that's what I think it is. So, unless you can recognize what wine you're drinking, there's not really that much to guess whether the SPECIFIC wine you're drinking is red or white.
Anyway, that's my guess, knowing as little as I do about wine.