You go into a wine merchant or the supermarket and there's a vast array of different bottles on the shelf: how do you pick a good 'un?
Being of a scientific bent I decided sometime ago to research this question in a scientific manner: i.e. I selflessly dedicated myself to sampling many bottles of wine in order to evolve a surefire method of wine selection.
After many false paths I stumbled upon a simple solution to the problem which I now use in all wine purchases with excellent results. I am now willing to pass this information on to a select band so you can share the fruits of my endeavouirs.
It's quite simple. You need to select bottles of wine that have pictures of the chateaux on their labels. This approach recommends itself immediately since Australian wines fall by the wayside at step one.
Next: count the windows on the chateaux. Not the individual panes, each total window counts as one window.
The more windows on the chateaux, the better the bottle of wine!
Now some of these pictures will not appear to you to be chateaux, more what you might consider to be no better than your own garage (if you have one) or shed. That's because they are, in fact, brewing in a garage or shed. I consider that here windows count as halves for the purposes of assessment.
Of course it could be argued that correlation between wine quality and window count may not imply causation between the two. However, I believe causation can be explained by linking the success of the wine with the wealth of the chateaux, and thus the number of windows.
Anyway: good hunting!
Being of a scientific bent I decided sometime ago to research this question in a scientific manner: i.e. I selflessly dedicated myself to sampling many bottles of wine in order to evolve a surefire method of wine selection.
After many false paths I stumbled upon a simple solution to the problem which I now use in all wine purchases with excellent results. I am now willing to pass this information on to a select band so you can share the fruits of my endeavouirs.
It's quite simple. You need to select bottles of wine that have pictures of the chateaux on their labels. This approach recommends itself immediately since Australian wines fall by the wayside at step one.
Next: count the windows on the chateaux. Not the individual panes, each total window counts as one window.
The more windows on the chateaux, the better the bottle of wine!
Now some of these pictures will not appear to you to be chateaux, more what you might consider to be no better than your own garage (if you have one) or shed. That's because they are, in fact, brewing in a garage or shed. I consider that here windows count as halves for the purposes of assessment.
Of course it could be argued that correlation between wine quality and window count may not imply causation between the two. However, I believe causation can be explained by linking the success of the wine with the wealth of the chateaux, and thus the number of windows.
Anyway: good hunting!
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