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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Drink what you like. Certainly. However just because in your limited experience you have not personally tasted a &gt;$20 bottle of wine you personally liked to enough that you would spend your money on it doesn’t mean that no such thing exists nor that others shouldn’t also....drink what they like. It necessarily goes both ways, no?

I have tasted good in expensive wines and good expensive wines. I have tasted bad inexpensive wines and bad expensive wines. Both good and bad come in a range of prices. I don’t think there beat &lt;$20 bottle I have tasted is comparable at all to, say, the best &gt;$100 wine so to me sometimes a more expensive bottle is worth it.

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I feel like both sides of this debate are misconstruing the studies.  They don't stand for the proposition that [i]certain [/i]expensive wines are not &quot;winners,&quot; and it may be that most of the best wines are indeed &quot;expensive,&quot; however that is defined. And of course any expert can distinguish between [i]types [/i]of wine, regardless. They just indicate that on average expensive wines were not rated more highly than cheap wines.  And I'm pretty sure that even &quot;cheap&quot; was &gt;$10 so no one was talking about 2 buck chuck.  It really just means that PPs that claim that their taste buds just cannot bear any $15 swill and &quot;you must spend at least $50 for good wine&quot; are full of it![/quote]

Eh, those were all bullsh*t social science or psychology experiments, probably not replicable at all.

Nobody who actually knows wine will dispute that there are bad $50 bottles and good $15 bottles.  But they will correctly say that most $10 bottles are undrinkable, and that the better wines (the really good ones) are in the more expensive range.  [/quote]

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