Is a Bottle of Cabernet Worth $500?
We think some wines may be worth $500, but it's always hard to justify a bottle that expensive when a wine at $30-50 will score just as high. Last week, a study by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology reported that the price of a bottle of wine can influence a drinkers' palate.
According to the study:
"If a person is told they are tasting two different wines and that one costs $5 and the other $45 when they actually are the same wine, the part of the brain that experiences pleasure will become more active when the drinker thinks they are enjoying the more expensive vintage.".
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read here. Photo credit Eric Risber/AP 2006.
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Posted by Blogpire Productions at January 29, 2008 9:00 AM
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