Engineers in the lab do not issue wine advice but do determine the test
methods. This it the test methodology for wines;
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At competitions, judges often taste a wine once before rendering a
verdict. At Consumer Reports, our tests are more rigorous and should
more accurately reflect the tasting experience most people will have.
Our judges were two wine-industry experts who have spent a total of 50
years professionally tasting a wide range of wines. For our tests, first
they spent a day and a half calibrating their palates to each type of
wine. That involved blind-tasting everything from so-so to superb
cabernet, shiraz, and sauvignon blanc, and allowed them to set standards
for a high-quality wine.
Then the real tests began, one varietal at a time. Presented with filled
glasses that were numbered and placed in random order, the experts
tasted each of the wines in our Ratings from four different bottles in
four different sessions. Every time, for every wine, they filled out a
ballot describing about 25 potential attributes. Consumer Reports food
experts and statisticians analyzed the ballots to arrive at the Ratings.
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Chuck Norcutt
Bill Pearce wrote:
>
> I was out with friends for dinner, and it was time to order wine. One
> suggested that he used CR ratings for wine buying. I suggested, with no
> offense to certain list members, that I'm not interested in geting my wine
> advice from a bunch of engineers in a lab.
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