Study shows some wine aromatics aren’t released until they meet the bacteria in our mouths “At least 700 bacterial species live in our saliva, on our teeth and on all the interior surfaces of our mouths. “For this study, sponsored by Spain’s Institute of Food Science Research in Madrid and published in the journal Food […]
Archive | Current System Paradigms
How sensory taste profiling stops short of individual recommendation accuracy
I continually shop for new wines like an average consumer. I do this to get put of the “wine bubble” that keeps reality at an arm’s length for so many wine geeks, fans, enthusiasts, spectators, aficionados, and members of the trade. How by-the-glass doesn’t work and can trash a winery’s reputation When Rogue Wine Calibration […]
New Research Shows Why Wine Descriptions Don’t Help Consumers Select Wine
New research recently published in the journal Neurocomputing shows one more reason why consumers get little help in choosing wines from the descriptions in wine reviews: the same words mean different things to different people. This fits in with — MISINTERPRETATION: Words = Big Trouble — which is one of the issues that we have […]
Turning White Wine Into Red: Recommendation Failures & The Alchemy Of Context
“[N]o event or object is ever experienced in perfect, objective isolation. It is instead subject to our past experiences, our current mood, our expectations, and any number of incidental details—an annoying neighbor, a waiter who keeps banging your chair, a beautiful painting in your line of sight. With something like wine, all sorts of societal […]
Wine And Music Are A Lot Alike & So Are The Ways Their Recommendation Systems Fail
Wine and music: please our senses, touch our emotions, beg to be shared, are deeply engrained in how we define ourselves and, can determine how other people judge us. Because of those factors, every recommendation system in use today — including those deployed by Pandora, Spotify, Slacker and other online music sites — fail because of: […]
How Predictive Big Data Fails
Recommendations from big data predictive methods are a lot like the use of epidemiology to determine the cause of a disease: Both rely on the statistical analysis and correlation of massive amounts of data. Both are indicative that something is happening. Both can offer insights into a phenomenon. Both are easily derailed by unknown confounding […]
INCOMPATIBILITY: Profile Matching
A PERSONAL NOTE: My apologies in advance to a number of good friends and colleagues who are still trying to get wine profile systems to work. But, as you read on, my hands-on experience and further research leads me to believe that the system has inherent problems that will prevent it from reaching the potential […]
Welcome to the Vino Casino
The Casino. (The House Always Wins) Buying wine is a lot like walking into a casino. You know the odds favor the house, but the gamble is worth it to find a good bottle of wine to enjoy. THE GAMBLE IS LIKE POKER As gambles go, wine wagering is a bit like poker where luck […]
GENETICS: How Inherited Taste Sabotages Recommendations
See also this update: Genetic science shows why wine reviews and taste profiles miss the target for recommendations Some people hate the taste of raw tomatoes. Others get positively hostile if you try to feed them cilantro. Broccoli bashers abound. Liquorice loathers understandably shy away from foods seasoned with fennel and anise seed. What does […]
SCALING: Most Wines Have NEVER Been Rated By Critics
UPDATE, August 18, 2020: New data from a highy respected source: 116,000+ new wine products approved by TTB in past 12 months: bw166. Consumers who try to rely upon wine ratings to make purchase decision are often thwarted by the widespread absence of reviews. For that reason, I’ve been trying to figure out about […]