In case you didn't read the blog post preceding this one, this is basically just a list of professions which I think aren't all that it's made out to be. This one won't be from personal experience by the way...
So on to the next one...
Wine Tasters
To be an expert on wine, surely you'd be expected to be able to taste and point out the differences between wine much better than the average person.
In an experiment, several wine experts were given a bottle labelled 'vin de table' *which is an average-tiered wine* and another bottle labelled 'grand cru' *which is like one of the highest rated vineyards*. Little did the expert know, that the wine was actually the same, only the labels are different. The wine is orignally white, yet through the use of food colouring, grand cru was modified to become red.
To cut a long story short, they found the first bottle to be "simple, unbalanced and weak," whilst the latter to be "complex, balanced and full." Funnily, their skills were highly put to disgrace and that alone is able to put me off on the profession of wine tasting.
So to sum it up, the wine experts were easily fooled by both the labels and the colouring of the wine...
The words that soon came out of their mouths were null...which truly makes me think that the whole idea of wine tasting is artificial and complete hokum...
