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66% of wine drinkers find wine descriptions unhelpful in choosing wine. Only 9% rely on critics

October 26, 2018

Data from the 2013 Laithwaites Wines Survey, of 1,000 wine drinkers by polling firm, One Poll. (Laithwaites customers were excluded from the survey.) Those taking part said they were relatively well-informed on wine terminology. All the terms used in the survey were taken from the bottles or websites of leading […]

Beyond Genetics: How Saliva Affects Your Unique Way Of Experiencing Wine

June 8, 2015

Recommendation Insights has previously described the many ways that genetic variations determine any single individual’s wine taste experience: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages Recommendations. Source: Food Chemistry via Palate Press Now comes this very well-written article that expands that concept: Spit and image: How saliva customizes your wine tasting experience: “Not […]

Recommendation News – Nov. 4, 2014

November 4, 2014

Wine Shopping in Boston Just Got a Lot Easier

Recommendation News – Nov. 3, 2014

November 4, 2014

Corkz Update Extends Global Reach of the Wine Information App Pandora for beer? Vivino, Club W Use Tech To Help Wine Lovers Find Favorites Damned Experts! Damned “Know-Nothings!” … (Damn You, Consumers) Grade Inflation Is Killing The Value of Wine Reviews Discovering your own taste in wine beyond 100-point scores […]

Recommendation News – Oct. 30, 2014

October 30, 2014

Wine Lovers Should Open Their Palates To Technology To Find Favorites Corkz Update Extends Global Reach of the Wine Information App

Fatal Flaws In Current Recommendation Systems

Mouth bacteria: one more reason that individuals’ taste perception differs (especially from sip & spit experts)

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Welcome to the Vino Casino

New updated data on why current recommendation methods fail can be found HERE and HERE. Full series: Genetics: Inherited Taste Chaos Sabotages How Wine Gets […]

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 […]

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 […]

MISINTERPRETATION: Words = Big Trouble

Words can mean different thing to different people. What does “complex” mean? Or “balanced?” “Big?” “Olive-tinged black currant?” “I don’t know what you mean by […]

INCONSISTENCY: Rating The Rating Systems

How you ask a question can determine the answer you get. The concept lies at the heart of journalists, scientists, those who interview job candidates, […]

PSYCHOLOGY: Anxiety, Stress and Social Pressure Sabotage Choice

This is the next-to-last article in a series about the difficulties faced by retail wine buyers and the problems with the existing systems created to […]