Master Sommelier Dustin Wilson demonstrates his blind-tasting skills in our Supertasters series. Watch the video to find out if he guesses the wine right. To learn more, visit ow.ly/m77y50uDDv6.
I have to say Dustin's deductive tasting breakdown is the best. I love his choice of descriptions, and his format. Ive seen many on the channel, but I like his way of approaching it best.
I not only nailed it, including the year, which he didn't get, but I successfully predicted that it was stored 3rd from the bottom in a cellar in Kansas City. Kansas, not Missouri.
That’s cute, based on his tasting notes alone I was able to decipher that it was bagged by store clerk Bob at ABC Wine & Liquor on a Thursday afternoon, mid-May. He was wearing his blue shoes that day
This is amazing in the same way that it is amazing the way Michael Jordan can hit a last-second shot. You know it can be done. You know people can do it. But when you see it there seems to be a bit of magic involved. I personally would have guessed a 2018 merlot from Detroit, Michigan. ;-)
Some of it is a quality bias: high quality wines are more likely to be medium+ intensity than just medium, and most of the wines featured are premium. There's also a bit of old world bias - European wines tend to show more acid and tannin than new world versions of the same wine. I think the series shows more European wines than new world so I think that's part of why you hear more "medium plus". Another part I think is just human nature...if you're tasting something and you say everything is medium, medium, medium I suspect there's a subconscious factor of tasters thinking it makes them sound boring, so there's an inclination to make things sound more different/interesting.
