Can Professional Wine Connoisseurs Tell the Difference Between Cheap and Expensive Wines & Much More

[@TodayIFoundOut]

0:00 Can Professional Wine Connoisseurs Really Not Tell the Difference Between Expensive and Cheap Wines? 17:26 How Alcohol “Proof” is Determined 21:00 Do Drunk People Really Survive Car Crashes More? 32:10 Why Would You Add Antifreeze to Wine? 46:15 Do Wine Makers Really Walk Over Grapes With Their Feet? 51:10 Does Canadian Beer Really Contain More Alcohol Than Beer Made in the United States? 55:12 How Did Oktoberfest Start? 1:03:55 Why Isn’t Beer Sold in Plastic Bottles? 1:08:30 Who Invented Tequila and What about the Worm? 1:13:30 What is Eggnog Made Of?

[@NapLegends]

I prefer a 4% , homebrewing on the other hand I've had it shoot to 20%, I don't think its classified as beer at that point. Average for me is about 6%

[@NapLegends]

Cans have a plastic coating inside.

[@outsider7658]

Hi. As You asked concerning 32.10: If I remember right, the antifreeze gives a sour, wine sweetness. Correct if I am wrong. from a Finn in Diaspora

[@aceundead4750]

​@@outsider7658 i doth believe thee to be correct, as it being sweet is why i was constantly told bees and wasps love it.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😅😅😅

[@hitest8925]

I have been trying to refine my sense of taste over the years and can say with confidence that blindfolded I can now distinguish between a rich, full bodied Barolo from the Piedmont region of Italy and a crisp, fresh Budweiser from the St. Louis region of Missouri , especially if the wine is served at 17 C in a glass and the beer is served at 50 C in a can. My palate is more like a pallet - flat and woody.

[@wb2860]

Got a literal lol from me.

[@Rick-k7m]

I was so annoyed until the "Budweiser". Then I busted out laughing and continued laughing the rest of the read. Thank you, dork 😂😂

[@chitlitlah]

Train me, master, for I hope one day to be able to do the same.

[@lloydwoodward9053]

Way to flex on us uncouth unwashed masses. Maybe if I win the lottery I’ll be able to tell the difference between Dom Perignon and Mad Dog 20/20 banana, but I doubt it.

[@hitest8925]

​@@chitlitlah The secret is to cleanse the palate between tastings. I suggest a double bacon chilly cheese dog smothered in aged Sriracha sauce followed by a slightly grey pickled egg and a small to medium sized bowl of heavily salted peanuts you have pocketed from your local pub two weeks, three days ,four hours and seven minutes (here seconds are not so important) prior to the sampling. Bonne appetit et bonne chance. PS If you want to take this to another level, crawl upstairs at least two flights and end the tasting with 6 shots of Don Julio Blanco tequila straight from the bottle quickly chased with a generous sampling of chilled Almdudler lemon drink and an unfinished all-day sucker you rescued from the cup holder of your best friends car. Cheers.

[@Wargasm54]

I worked with a Sommelier at an upscale restaurant for a number of years. He was really cool and had an amazing sense of smell and taste. He could break down a blend almost by percentage and was able to nail geographical sources and vintage with mind boggling accuracy. Being a Sommelier was just a secondary interest for him. Chemical engineering was his thing. But he was absolutely brilliant in a wide range of fields and subjects. He would hold study classes for all the college students who were employed there. After the restaurant closed on an early evening, he would get in the middle of the bar and all the employees would bring their text books all around the bar that was almost a full surround. It didn’t matter what subject. The students would ask questions on subjects they were struggling with. He would bounce a few qualifying questions back at them then completely break it down and explain it in a way they could understand. It was a trip watching him going around the bar helping everyone. Dude was just brilliant. And he was only in his late 20’s at the time. And he wasn’t a square. He partied like a rockstar. No crap drugs like blow or ketamine or other crap that was going around. More of a mushroom, ecstasy , lsd and any kind of mind expanding hallucinogenics. He was funny AF too. Good times.

[@takeohtyme]

Yeah, that seems about right for the 0.01% of people who can actually differentiate between box wine and "good" wine. He was probably some sort of neurologic deviant, and a great trip buddy.

[@dansullivan1246]

I didn't now Elon was a somm....

[@robertkerr4201]

I have personally witnessed a Wine professional. During a blind tasting. I was participating in. He correctly identified the Wine… The Varietal and the origin within one square mile

[@peterkoller3761]

Absinth makes the heart grow fonder!

[@Bacon_and_Busch]

But an abscess makes the fart go: honda

[@trappenweisseguy27]

I doubt that there’s very many people on the entire planet who have had real absinthe, considering that it was banned for decades. I think there’s one French company who are making “the real deal” these days, but who knows if it’s really authentic to what was available 100 years ago.

[@leeanneb7178]

And the head go wander.

[@lauramanuel7619]

There is a reason why Ferraro Roche are wrapped in gold. Psychology is big.

[@nathanalex7797]

only objectively correct comment. well done sir.

[@loopbackish]

Heh they are just cornflakes in chocolate aren't they? The ultimate gilding the turd.

[@ABadassDragon]

Its still tasty

[@mickthebandit]

With this comment, you are really spoiling us 😂

[@scottyork8831]

I haul bulk food products for a living. I once hauled several thousand gallons of wine from one winery to another who then shipped it to a third winery, without it being unloaded from my trailer, as their (2nd winerys) wine. The third winery recieved it after their quality control, which included a test by a sommelier, verified that it was produced by the second winery. The third winery unloaded it into a tank to be bottled the next day as their own wine. The third winery was an award winning winery on the west coast of the US. I am pretty sure that sommeliers can't tell the difference between wines.

[@Brandon-jw5cv]

Real wine professionals can absolutely tell the difference between most cheap and expensive wine, assuming the cost came from winemaking and not marketing. There are plenty of cheap wines that over-perform their cost, and there are a ton of not great expensive wines.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Yeah that is a good point, and there is no way around it. Price is arbitrary. Some cheaper wines are actually made with quality as well. Business Insider black bald guy does a decent job of comparing two wines to say what one is cheaper.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

I like the phrase "over-perform their cost". Thank you and I will definitely use it going forward. My current favorite Pinot Noir is a $6.99 bottle from North Macedonia that out performs a lot of the $25+ wines from the Willamette Valley.

[@dougversion2.0]

The problem is wine pricing is based on a ton of factors (land/labor cost, marketing, supply/demand, etc.) and not just tied to quality. A better way to phrase the question is "Can wine professionals tell the difference between low-quality wine and high-quality wine?" We know the answer is yes.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

My SIL is a Certified Sommelier (this is level 3 so the middle of the pack) and she can pick out the varietals, some terriors, etc. She is not a wine snob and will recommend a $10 bottle just as fast as she will recommend a $50 bottle. There is a difference between a sommelier and a connoisseur. A sommelier is trained and has proven the ability to pick out certain aspects of wine. A connoisseur is much more likely to be filled with BS.

[@mariaghiglieri78]

I am a Certified Wine Specialist, having gone through the Society of Wine Educators, and know two or three master somms. Anyone worth their salt will be more than eager to recommend a real good wine that is $10 versus a crap wine that is $80. If someone does that, they are a salesman. Not a wine expert.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@mariaghiglieri78 The wine store where my SIL works is mostly wine experts which I really like. They will happily sell you a $100 bottle, but just as happily sell you a fantastic pinot noir from Northern Macedonia that costs $6.99.

[@Efferheim]

As with many things in this world, it varies. Some people can smell a flower and tell which one it is, while others are only somewhat sure it’s a flower.

[@dark_baphomet]

This is probably the earliest ive got to one of simons vids

[@uncletiggermclaren7592]

I have seen this done to professionals twice, and one of the guys it was done to admitted * that a part of wine tasting is knowing some information about the kind of wine, so he can form a comparison in anticipation. * As if he needed to admit to it.

[@JacquesOF]

I can atleast tell a grape juice from wine

[@J.MacInnes]

nothing wrong with a little box of Card-boardeaux.

[@JustArmands]

Carlo Rossi for the ones with sweet tooth.

[@lindafarnes486]

Chateaux cardboard.

[@chezsnailez]

Mum always enjoyed a good Cardbordeaux...

[@adamredwine774]

I like wine. When I talk to friends who say "I don't drink wine because I don't know anything about it," I always tell them that they are the very best people to drink because they can (and should) just get the cheapest bottles they find and as soon as they find a mass produced bottle they like, just stick with it.

[@donaldwert7137]

The comment at the end of the sommelier section, "The only thing that matters with regard to a wine is whether or not you like it", reminds me of the motto of a whiskey channel I watch: "The best whiskey is the whiskey you like to drink, the way you like to drink it."

[@Dauntlessmedia]

My God! The Neon sign is ... LIT! Glory Days™ indeed!

[@udowannun7780]

That’s because this was filmed years ago.

[@djdrack4681]

I was wondering how long he'd take to repair it...all that Raid: SHADOW Legends $$$, it shoudl have been repaired years ago.

[@michaelb1761]

That is a very young Simon at the end of this compilation video.

[@JoelReid]

Port is an interesting example. A very cheap port is indeed terrible, and a hugely expensive port is delicious... but anywhere between very cheap and hugely expensive is unknown until you taste it. Price for port is more an indication on how long it has been sitting around, and how much they spent on packaging... whether it tastes good has little relation to taste except at the two extremes.

[@TheKrausenKid]

Turning the volume all the way up to hear young Simon only to have current Simon blow my eardrums out

[@JoelReid]

I can tell the year of different regions of Australia since 2015. I even have preferences. But as I do not drink wine before 2015 (because I was not interested before then) and I live in Australia, my tastes are limited. Hint: it has to do with knowing the weather. the el nino/la nina cycle has a huge impact.

[@LauFiu]

Ooh Mr Whistler😂 2:49 that felt like it came from a real place 😂

[@larimatolaganon4946]

Epicures had a wine tester on their blind cheep vrs expensive series, they managed to get it all right. Cool person.

[@tullochgorum6323]

Highly sceptical that being drunk and "floppy" can protect you from traumatic injury. Boxers are knocked out by the blow they didn't see coming. If they anticipate the blow and tense up to receive it, they are FAR less likely to suffer a KO. So 150 years of pragmatic experience in the ring suggests rather strongly that being relaxed and unprepared doesn't protect you from trauma.

[@lindafarnes486]

They might not see it coming, but they are standing up, bouncing about a bit, bracing for their next strike. Not draped against the fencing snoring when they get hit. Not exactly comparable.

[@justin2955]

My best friend sister is a professional drunk is what we call it ..I’ve known her for 30 Years. She done very well for her self . She’s been a master for 20 years

[@CharleyHorse33]

We Canadians call American beer pisswater not because of it's alcohol content, but rather because it tastes "thinner". However, in some Southern states Alabama in my experience, alcohol content, at least in the 1990s, was regulated so that 3.5% was the norm for most brands. Anything higher was called :"malt liquor" and was only available where liquor was sold.

[@desperadox7565]

3.5%? Nobody would drink that here.🍻🇩🇪

[@danf321]

And Labatts and Molson aren’t piss water🤮? Yes we in America have many watery beers, BUT we’ve also got a huge cottage industry of local breweries that make damn good brew. AND I don’t need to pay $25.00 for a 6-pack with $10.00 in extra taxes tagged on.

[@tiercel5561]

Oh, that's why our beer - San Miguel Beer is slightly better than American beer. It is 6.5% alcohol. The 3.5% alcohol types of beer are called light beers.

[@hitest8925]

It has been said that drinking American beer is like making love in a canoe.....f'n near water. Cheers 🍺

[@dannyneeley344]

The big national brands are usually around 3.5 percent because of the different rules in different states

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

me and my family's favourite wine is the German white wine ' blue nun', which is a traditionally drank wine in our family.

[@Rai-Rai666]

That was the winner that first got me drinking wine. Too sweet for me now, but I still appreciate the world it opened for me!

[@djdrack4681]

funny. cuz same here. IF we have to drink a white...that's the preferred white. We mostly drink reds though.

[@stevemartin4249]

I live in Japan, and some decades ago, was taken on a tour of a Kirin beer brewery in Tochigi prefecture. At the end of a work day, production workers are treated with a tiny sip of the day's work, and even among themselves, only 1% can tell the difference between bottled and draft.

[@treytonkibbee5535]

8:47 I may have misheard but it’s menthol not methanol.

[@hitest8925]

Yes, a slip of the tongue or auto-correct mistake I think...methanol is extremely poisonous (used in anti-freeze, pesticides etc.)

[@drewherbi]

The netflix doc on the guy that mixed cheap wines to recreate super rare vintages proves absolutely that they are no better than the nose and palate of the average person

[@Kevwa51]

If I get really stoned and drink wine I can taste what sommeliers claim to taste. So that’s pretty cool.

[@djdrack4681]

"the snozzberries taste like snozzberries"

[@cicichambers3887]

Sweet Jesus , #25! I feel like such a fan!

[@davidneufeld26]

At first I thought the thumbnail said "Are some liars full of crap". hah.

[@AllMyHobbies]

Stomping, grapes and pressing grapes is two different things you would stomp the grapes right after harvest to release some of the juice and then ferment with the skins and all the juice and then you would use a wine press afterwards to extract the juice there would be no stomping after you ferment

[@rhyslogan6490]

Time warp! Stewart little is back!

[@bobair2]

Wine is something I have 4 or 5 times in the last 44 years and only once did I like it. The one I liked was clear coloured as it wasn't bitter but not something I would try again. I like beer a whole lot more, like wine there is much variety in the way it tastes and smells.

[@charlesparr1611]

The idea isn't to be able to tell the difference between cheap and expensive wines. That's very easy, you just look at the godddamned price tag. The idea is to be able to judge the quality of the wine, and the character of the wine, so as to make intelligent buying decisions either for your employer, or for a retail customer in a restaurant. Wines are expensive for various reasons, but interestingly, none of those reasons is the quality of what is in the specific vintage you are sampling. Wine is priced on HISTORICAL quality, on the overall positive or negative rating of the grape crop of that year, on marketing hype, on the popularity of that style of wine, and many other factors. But the price of the bottle on the shelf is a function of all those combined, even if whats in the bottle THIDS time is cats piss. Every year there are cheap wines that turn out to be stellar. Not many, but every year it happens, some grower has a brilliant year, some unknown winemaker turns out to be either lucky, or an up and coming viticulture genius. And every year some of the worlds greatest winemakers fuck up and produce the afore mentioned cats piss. Yes, most of the time if you buy a wine from a respected label and a well regarded vintage year, you will get a good wine, BUT NOT ALWAYS. The greatest skill of a good sommelier is simple: They find the wines that are better than their price tag, and then from those, they pick one with the character and flavour which will work best for their customer or employer. To do that, you need to be able to decide what tastes good, describe it in easily understandable phrases, and compare it to other wines like it to make a quality judgement. It is difficult, it is filled with pitfalls, but it is absolutely a skill and a skill that can be taught, learned, and honed with experience. Note that all of these so called 'debunkings' are simply efforts to use well known psychological or physiological quirks to trick people. Rather than presenting a liquid neutrally and asking for a judgement is VERY different from setting traps for people that the trapper already knows will target vulnerabilities in the tasting process. In the end, the common thread of those triumphantly crowing that the snobby experts are all a bunch of frauds tis that they themselves don't like wine, and want to prove that their own lack of interest in wine is not a lack of culture, but some sort of admirable self-honesty and refusal to be impressed by bnullshit. There is plenty of bullshit in the wine world. but that is why sommelier are so useful. They cut through the bullshit (or at least the honest ones do) and help you find a good bottle for Sunday dinner.

[@ls1gt611]

super young Simon at the end, what year was that from?

[@mickthebandit]

I remember Keith Floyd pointing to the alcohol content on a wine label saying “This is the ONLY thing that matters. How pissed you can get. There’s an awful lot of crap talked about wine”

[@DonnaLee-g6o]

I really appreciate your efforts! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@Chiller11]

A $10 bottle of wine you’re an alcoholic, a $50 bottle you’re a connoisseur.

[@djdrack4681]

Becky: [smells candle] "Hey this smells like Fireball" Becky's Friend: "Non-alcoholics call that cinnamon"

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Cheap from expensive isn't that useful anyway unless you think someone is scamming you. It's far better to know things like acidity, sweetness, body, tannins, barrel treatment and sometimes flavour notes since those are actually tangible aspects that contribute to a wine's flavour

[@notoverlyacerbic9574]

I am fairly confident that i can tell the difference between $5 bottom shelf and thenother stuff as the very bottom shelf is a special kind of bad,usually. Where is gets hard for me is everywhere else..

[@XDex91]

Regarding the "Does being drunk help you survive a car crash?" question, here's an anecdote. My friend and I were 21, and we had been out to the bars. I was drinking, and he was driving. He decided to show off in his sporty car, and I was along for the ride, drunk as a skunk. He lost control, and we spun out on the road, and sailed into the trees at approximately 100mph. Needless to say, we wrecked. My friend suffered a broken collar bone, broken ribs, and punctured lung. I experienced a small scratch on the top of my head from impacting the ceiling. My friend was hospitalized, and I didn't even need stitches. From my memory of the crash, I saw it coming, and, in my drunken state, I calmly assumed a crash position. I think the effect of the alcohol was allowing me to produce an unnatural state of calm.

[@misterjaxon2559]

The story I heard about the October beer party was a bit different. Since making large batches of beer involved large, open vats, beer making in the summer months was largely avoided, what with all the air-borne yeasts, bacteria, fungi, etc. Small batches were more easily controlled, but a large batch going bad would represent a substantial financial loss. So most of the year's beer production took place in winter when air-borne contamination was not a problem. This applied to ales as well as lagers. So, if you plan ahead correctly, you will have enough beer to get you through the summer until you can start production again in the autumn. Autumn comes, you start brewing again and you have, hopefully, excess stock from the previous winter. So you throw a big party and empty the kegs that are needed for the new production cycle. So it wasn't, according to this explanation, a matter of brewing ales in the summer and lagers in the winter. Rather, all large-scale brewing took place in the winter.

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Even the most Expensive bottle of wine, can get Bad so high price isn't a Garantie for quality. And sometimes great wine from unknown region and producer could be quiet inexpensive until they get known. Not to mention the magic stuff that never gets out on the market and you can only try in the small village it's from if you know the family that makes it.

[@michaelb1761]

A problem that I've observed twice now is that if they do get known - and if it's good they most likely will - the price goes up and the quality goes down.

[@michaelb1761]

Doc: Nurse, push 30 ml of ethanol stat and hang a bag of Macallan! (Doctor checks patients insurance) Doc: Make that Lord Calvert instead.

[@aceundead4750]

Im so pissed at myself, every year during Oktoberfest the store chain Aldi('s?) doesnt matter the spelling they sell special Oktoberfest flavors of their imported bratwurst and i missed it this year.

[@chrisdavidson911]

Newcastle Brown Ale, you can taste when it's from a can instead of a bottle.

[@JakeSezz]

1:13:58 I always forget about clean-faced Fact Boi. I believe it may be Whistle’s ChatGPT bot come to life and is a bastardized representation of KZbin’s hardest working man. We may never know…

[@lostNtx]

Omg naked simon .. was not expecting that 😂

[@alexhaladay4345]

What I love is box red wine and orange flavor seltzer water. its like a cheap sangria

[@GIBBO4182]

There’s a video on here of a guy who’s a beer expert and he doesn’t get a single thing wrong…I’m sure there are others just as knowledgeable about wine Epicurious is the channel

[@WobblesandBean]

It's an edited video on social media, posted by a well known professional content creator. I think it might be a wee bit staged.

[@bogbupog]

Love the thumbnail

[@forbiddenera]

You got your sign fixed. Cool. I offered but yeah, I'm sure my comments never get read 😂

[@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558]

There must be enough people who are interested in wine to be interested. I don't drink any hard juices so I'll have to catch you on the next upload 😊

[@volvo145]

Yes, the sentence wines that your man supermarkets have ordered the fifth so strange to me we sleep in Sweden or we can only buy alcohol as such as wine and beer stronger than 3.5% in special government stores call system company and here $10 for a bottle is considered cheap. It would be pretty great to be able to buy wine at two dollars per bottle. if so, inclined

[@exitar1]

YES

[@natedetroit3283]

I have tread grapes. It was fun! 🦶 🍇 That said, I never found out what happened to the wine.

[@John-mz6ig]

There are quite a few examples where sommeliers are duped and guessed wrong. People are often easily fooled and experts are often over confident of their own abilities.

[@maranathaschraag5757]

there are supertasters who have more taste buds per square inch than the rest of us. apparently that helps with wine tasting. i'd be curious to see a blind study of tasting with a few of those folks. And how many of the masters are supertasters.

[@samsprague2846]

Careful what you say about Taylor. Some of her fans are crazy. ;)

[@marsovac]

The question is not if they can tell the difference, but if people that buy wine can. These guys don't buy wine but get it donated to them.

[@JPMadden]

"Are sommeliers full of crap?" No, but if you know a lot about wine, you can't help but sound pretentious.

[@Rick-k7m]

Nah, they're full of shit

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@Rick-k7m Connoisseurs are. Sommeliers are much less likely to be (but I have met some who are)

[@frenchyroastify]

I think I getting notes of full bodied daftness and barefooted bumpkin.😁

[@stereodreamer23]

Yes and no. Blind tasting is an advanced parlor trick, but you DO need an excellent memory for tastes and an encyclopedic knowledge of terroir, and having “supertaster” levels of tastebuds help too. So yes, they are full of shit, because they are just using a really big, memorized decision tree to “identify” blind tastes wines, but also no, because to effectively use this system, you do have to have the knowledge, memory, and physiology to find infinitesimally small subtleties in wines. All that said, I have yet to meet an IGS soon who can identify a Primitivo correctly within 3 tries-which is why Primitivo is officially banned from guild Somm blind tasting tests.

[@christiansanders1]

You cross into pretentious territory when you act like your knowledge makes you the ultimate judge of what is good. There is no objectively “good” wine. I am really passionate about wine, it’s central to my work, and I have always said that the only thing that matters is that I know enough to help other people find what they like (which, sometimes, is something that I personally do not like). My job isn’t to sell everyone a $1000 1st growth Bordeaux or lecture them on terroir, it’s to make people happy. Lots of “experts” absolutely are snobs, and some are just nerds, like in any other field.

[@SpitefulAZ]

you already did this topic! is the video different this time?

[@tyson31415]

Some people can totally help you pair a wine with a meal, but the number of people who can tell the difference between the '67 and '69 (a joke example) are _diminishly_ small and not paid enough to work at the restaurant you're eating at.

[@WowIndescribable]

This is very similar to audio 'experts' who claim to identify and categorise 'tone woods' in electric guitars.

[@thewhitewolf58]

For me I still find it funny that you can show a character is high class by making them get drunk.

[@EdgarSoaresPT]

Hum, wine stomping is a real thing and it's done in many private vineyards in current days

[@Nyeupe-Nguvu]

*_I Know A Licensed Sommelier._* He assures me that the *_Highest Rollers_* that come to his restaurant don't know the difference between a 1945 Mouton and a 2024 "Barefoot."

[@Mysticfox-wk2be]

Wine snobs are much better at rating their own flatulence

[@petemccutchen3266]

The gap between experts and laypeople is almost entirely due to sweetness. Wine connoisseurs tend to prefer less sweet wines, while non wine drinkers want sweetness. That is why Barefoot is popular among college kids and non wine drinkers, but people who love wine hate it.

[@TruthNerds]

8:48 Menthol is very different from methanol!

[@djdrack4681]

[tastes both]..Yeah there is a big difference in flavor. [tries looking at both]....I don't see the difference.

[@Noah_E]

There are over a dozen vineyards within a ten mile radius of my house and my brother is a certified sommelier. He has said for years that the label matters more to the average person than what's in the bottle. People can drink wine with a commemorative label, say for a wedding, and think it is different from the same wine with its regular label.

[@bryanpritzl5812]

The first time I took the level 1 somm test there was a question that gave 4 wine regions in Argentina and asked you to name them from east to west…

[@peterkoller3761]

I do not want to defend the Austrian wine makers, but the highest amount of glycol that was ever found in an Austrian wine would require you to drink about 12-15 liters within a few hours. yet, the glycol scandal was really huge here, while, around the same time, a wine scandal in South Tyrol which even cost a few lives, went by without any greater outcry.

[@gathursteem]

That cousin Gill has a tendency to wildly overfill his wine glasses.

[@michaelwalton7776]

Horace Rumploe's Chateau Thames Embankment!🤪🍷

[@davidcollison8973]

I have a seasoned tongue. I’ve been using mine every day for over 50 years. I gave myself this title because I’m the only person that can taste what I taste and isn’t that what’s really important?

[@everettputerbaugh3996]

There seems to be some misconceptions in the comments about 3.2 and 5 percent beers in the U.S. It boils down the the measurement method use by the individual states. The beers are the same horse er, water, just different printing on the top of the can. Yes, some Pilsners taste like someone applied a fire-hose to the vat before bottling when compared to Lagers or Ales, let alone Stouts or Porters.

[@davidgermain]

There is a very good film about this.

[@justinecooper9575]

Wine snob tip; always keep the label up when pouring red wine.

[@neo20k]

1:14:12 omfg i forgot how weird young simon looked 😳 lmfao just as well that he’s an awesome presenter 😂

[@ZahraIsMyDog]

I would love to see a similar video for bourbon.

[@docmike8601]

Just an FYI from somebody who cares for and studied traumatic injury for more than 30 years...The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was only ever validated scientifically to predict prognosis of various levels of brain injury. It was never validated in pediatrics, with the pediatric score being nothing more than a symptomology modification. Emergency medicine providers have tried to use this score for years to measure how badly somebody is injured, but it is simply not reliable for that. Experts in the field (usually American, simply because Europe sees less and less severe trauma) will only use the GCS to determine which parts of the brain are injured. GCS also does not account for involuntary brain activity, like herniation of the brain through the foramen magnum or ventricular shift from blood or cerebral spinal fluid. I seriously doubt the expertise of anyone who uses GCS in practice or study, as they clearly are not aware of its validity or function.

[@dannyneeley344]

I don't know anything about wine, but i can tell the difference between mad dog 20/20 and yellow tail

[@zch7491]

Vintage Simon

[@stevebest216]

16:06 ahh yes, mass produced round tablea are often quite good.

[@grega.n.1865]

There are also Masters of wine and the whole WSET education programme besides the sommeliers.

[@pomkin355]

I'd like to suggest how to use an apostrophes for a future video, as apparently neither the video editor nor the commenters are aware of the correct use.

[@PhilBertran]

Anyone else feel like we're watching a Benjamin Button type transformation?

[@BxExSteve]

Only Hannibal Lector in the film like Chianti.

[@_PITBOY]

Ever open one of these videos of Simons, instantly realizing with all the hand waving and the oddly square glasses, that its an old video ... then discover its one of those over-an-hour long glued together rehash jobs from various eras of Simon ... then said 'ya, no ... im not doing this today' ... and closed it?

[@johnquinn9237]

There are so many consistently GOOD wines today. Wine is meant to be enjoyed not analyzed. All wine tastes better when drunk with friends.

[@timballam3675]

Yes, there you go........

[@mingfanzhang8927]

Get 😊

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

All I know is that I cannot tolerate Sauv Blanc. Sick for several days after drinking a little sip.

[@anathardayaldar]

7:30 THis is why I'll never take a wine appreciation class. I don't want to learn how to hate cheap wine.

[@djdrack4681]

a hose and funnel makes all things equal...just as 2 cardboard bags makes all women equally beautiful XP

[@shotoka81]

Speaking as an 11 year bartender, 16 years in the service industry... You don't have to be a sommelier to taste whether something is made cheap and quick versus something made with care and quality ingredients. 😂🤨🤦

[@Nethershaw]

Your editor should have the apostrophe key removed from their keyboard.

[@lptomtom]

A spelling mistake like this in a channel that claims to educate viewers is quite funny to see

[@jcnot9712]

@@lptomtommisplaced apostrophes are some of the funniest spelling mistakes to me. -It’s- It is so easy to just not use apostrophes altogether if -you’re- you are not sure how to use -‘em- them.

[@AcornElectron]

Yep, because KZbin is where I go when I want correct grammar. 😂

[@nicfripp4159]

Please remove the idiotic apostrophe - its presence indicates that your views are totally invalidated by your stupidity in allowing it in the first place

[@Rob.DB.]

@@lptomtom ...? Which sqiggle is the apostrophe again?? Also just curious about your name. Is the lp for liquid propane? My neighbor Hank is REALLY into that stuff! He'll tell anyone who'll listen that he "sells propane, & propane accessories "!!!