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Wine experts can’t tell good wine from bad, decades of research shows

Ellsworth Toohey
Oct 13, 2025
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Wine experts can’t tell good wine from bad — and they’ve been exposed repeatedly for decades. In 1976’s famous Judgment of Paris, French wine connoisseurs blindly rated California wines superior to French ones, shattering the assumption that only France produced excellent wine. Replications in 1978, 1986, and 2006 confirmed the…

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