How Sommeliers Can Taste Which Year Wine is From
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The concept of a wine taster who keeps accidentally being given Baja Blast is hilarious.
Oh man. I got a good chuckle from that corn syrup one.
virgin wine taster vs chad baja blast enjoyer
Just imagining they get some distinguished British sommelier who sounds like Lord Wyndham from Tropico. "Governorrrr! I know this is Baja Blast again!"
Baja Blast is my favorite wine. It's grown in the Baja peninsula region of Mexico, near a town called Blasta.
some youtuber needs to hire a wine tester and give them baja blast in a wile bottle and film it xp
A mountain dew sommelier would be a much needed expert with all the different flavors out there.
The flavor is written on the bottle
That is the most profound thing I have heard this week.
You hit the nail on the head.
Brendaniel
"He can tell from wich soda fountain or plant in the country the Mt.Dew came froms!"
I think i have what it takes
"We're wine tasting here, not tasting wine."
Pretty much sums up all wine snobs.
I like when scientific studies give 'expert' wine tasters a dozen samples all from the same bottle, and they go on to describe how different they all are. Any first year biology student will tell you the human sense of smell and taste are ridiculously subjective and lack consistency, and if you get into psychology, the mere suggestion that something is bad and nasty will ruin the experience of any food or drink for most people. A mass spectrometer basically renders human wine experts redundant for examining any suspectly labeled wine.
Reminds me of that one episode in Adam Ruins Everything
@@kauske Source?
@@kauske That's why they maximize the information taken from the color and behavior of the wine. Yes, they can describe it in different ways but the notes they look for to determine the storage method, for example, are pretty major and distinct, are they not? Critiquing wine and saying what's "good" or "bad" is iffy, but just getting this information seems pretty repeatable and founded in scientific principles.
@@averagelearningenjoyer4399 If you want a study on the subjectivity of the human palate for wine, look up 'Frédéric Brochet wine study,' skip the news outlets and go right to the source. I'd link it, but youtube auto blocks comments with links. Otherwise you can look up literal decades of food science and restaurant technique. any half decent chef can explain that a bad looking restaurant can poison the opinion of your food long before the patrons receive it, let alone taste it.
Since you want scientific sources, I assume you're also aware of why we do double blind studies, as without them the influence can skew the results so badly the whole study is worthless. Simply mis-labeling a bottle can be enough to skew results of a tasting, same with dying white wine red. Expectation is a huge part of human psychology works, that's an established fact that doesn't require sources.
If you want information on mass spectrometry or other related ways of determining food and beverage composition, you're sort of on your own to look that up, there are tons of places you can get info on food science like that. We're past the point of needing an expert to judge wines and ensure rare wines are not counterfeit, machines and labs do it better. The reality is that these experts exist mostly to exploit the fact that if a respected expert says something is good, many people will perceive the taste, scent etc as better than otherwise.
It's why experts review well known vineyards consistently better, it's why people buy these well known vineyards wine more than unknown ones. Aside from absolute swill, most wines are fairly decent and far from undrinkable. A lot of what you pay for is prestige, a 10-30 dollar bottle versus a 100 dollar bottle is likely not an appreciable difference if you didn't know which was which, otherwise it's mostly in your head.
And as for sommeliers providing wine pairings, that really doesn't require a dedicated expert. Literally every chef has to learn wine pairing theory in school, most wait staff in venus that serve a variety of wine learn it too. It's honestly a lot more theory to make a decent pairing than super-human sense of smell. There are undoubtedly some sommeliers who are able to very distinctly tell wines apart, but most end consumers just won't be able to.
It's scary how much wine-related stock footage you managed to find for this video
It's because it's footage that relates to so many of us: chugging it while crying in the bathroom! 😂
@@rallymaniac92 nah
@@ipadair7345 yeah
@@kam2894 thnx for agreeing with me
You'd be surprised at the millions of stock videos these sites have on offer.
Im convinced, HaI just tripped over the wine category on his stock footage site, and things escalated from there to this video.
Probably just looking for how alcohol logistics work for Wendover
I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't disagree with you.
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@Rare one your dad isnt
How else would he make a video?
Oh I'm here for this. I'm WSET level 3!
Unfortunately, Mountain Dew Baja Blast wasn't on our curriculum. :(
Lmafooooo Baja blast is my favorite too
Doing my level 3 in September!
Wow that’s really impressive! Are you going for level 4?
@@aidenarmstrong2863 No, probably not... it's a huuuuge step up in work and time. It's also a bit more expensive to self-fund, and harder if you don't work in the industry (I don't, I'm just an uh... enthusiastic amateur)!
I'd recommend anyone with any interest in wine do level 2, definitely worth it for the enjoyment factor alone. :)
Any tips for acing the written portion? I just need to rewrite that portion and I’m passed my Level 3!
My Cousin knows a lot about wine, she can probably tell you which wine goes with every food. She grew up at her father's bar and he taught her, and in the couple of places she has been working, most of the people has been wondering why she has never got a Sommelier certification.
That's the clinch, my cousin is allergic to sulphites and can't drink wine, the simple smell of it makes her feel sickly, and to get the title, you need to do the whole smelling, tasting thing. She was just fed the theory by her dad and has been reciting it ever since.
Aww that's a crap bag
My sister did a similar thing. Learned a lot as a waitress in a 4 star restaurant, but is allergic and can't drink wine at all. She knows a crazy amount but never will apply it to her own life
Going an entire lifetime without being able to drink wine, I would just kms
@@kfaughter4350 billions of people do it
@@daniyal-syed I am referring to how this person is allergic to it. I myself have been called an alcoholic, I drink a lot of wine
one of these days im gonna have friends over and im gonna do the whole thing with the swirling and tipping and observing and then im gonna conclude "yeah i think this is wine"
Tsk, tsk, you're not learning. It's clearly Mountain Dew Baja Blast
You gotta double whammy that one into "I'm highly confidant... that... this (extra sniff)..... is wine"
Joke on you that's the new red baja blast
“Suggest that you’ve cracked a bottle of mountain due baja blast again” killed me.
I learned precisely one thing from this:
Drinking Mtn Dew Baja Blast makes you a sommelier
When he said "sommeliers don't taste wine the same we do. Usually chugging it over the sink while crying" cracked me up! Love it 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Certified oof
"If you've already tasted the wine you've failed at tasting the wine"
This video will age like fine wine
But the comments are aging like milk
This sounds like something they could have used for an episode of “Frasier”
Niles and Frasier fighting over who gets to attend a tasting with a Master Sommelier… and in the end they both end up embarrassing themselves and drinking beer in a bar instead.
Lmao
You referring to s3e05 'Kisses sweeter than wine', about when Frasier invited the wine club to his place to impress them, and then in his attempt to get the place cleaned up, messes it up badly, or s7e17 'Whine club' where Niles and Frasier face off in a wine tasting competition to become the 'Corkmaster' of their club?
In France we also smell the wine first before shaking the glass to see how the smell evolve after it has been shaken.
The really funny part is when sommeliers can’t tell the difference between red wine and dyed white wine. Specifically, not recognising the red wine they were given was actually identical to the white they were given, just dyed red.
They did the same with an "expensive" wine and a "cheap" wine, but (big surprise) they were both the same cheap wine!
They just filled a fancy bottle with the cheap wine and the sommeliers were fooled 100% of the time in the experiment.
[CITATION NEEDED]
Depends on the sommelier, the best have no problem with that. Here is a video of a Master of Wine doing the test you mentioned: ua-cam.com/video/sN83j5ZOUm0/v-deo.html&t
Master of Wine is a similar qualification to Master Sommelier. What I have learned is that many of these experiments are done on 'Wine experts' but not expert blind tasters and that when a MS or MW replicates the experiment they have no problem with it. Fact is that blinding tasting is incredibly hard and people who can do it well consistently are very rare but definitely exist.
YEARS OF ACADEMY TRAINING
WASTED!
-Buzz Lightyear
@@theregalproletariat there’s an Adam Ruins Everything about it out there somewhere
Ah yes, a wine tasting video yet Sam still successfully sneaks in Mtn Dew Baja Blast as to be expected 😂
It is astonishing just how many comments about Baja Blast there are
0:30 I want that Years of intensive studying bug bite
Guess I'm better than any master out there cause i can figure out all the info just with my sight (on the label)
Everyone here seems to be overlooking that identifying wines isn't the raison d'etre for sommeliers.
Wine pairing is.
@@theregalproletariat But you don´t need even half the skills of sommeliers to do decent wine pairing. In fact most decent chefs can do it just fine.
@@XMysticHerox This.
@@XMysticHerox Remember that what's shown here is the skillet of a Master Sommelier - which are indeed, less in demand, but are still in demand by high-end restaurants that own expensive bottles.
@@theregalproletariat I wasn´t talking about (just) Master Sommeliers. Even the basic certification includes deductive wine tasting stuff.
Like I said any good chef knows how to pair wines. You say they are in demand in high end restaurants and of course you are right. However this is not to pair wines though if employed I imagine it often is something they do. However the main reason is "being fancy" and pleasing wine snobs. It´s as simple as that. The purpose of high end restaurants is moreso making customers feel important than (just) providing good food. Sommeliers are a big part of that.
Ah yes, the bouquet of Mt. Dew Baja Blast has hints of lime, quite delectable.
i feel the reason for people learning this is less to know where something is made when they taste is and rather to know how it will taste after hearing where, when, and with what it was made.
The video I have been waiting for! I follow on social media a Master Sommelier who was based in Charlotte NC for sometime, he sourced wines for the nicest upscale restaurants in Uptown. I visited one of the restaurants, had an outrageously expensive steak, and saw the wine locker and the visual guide (of the restaurant’s wine collection and it’s resident Master Sommelier) on the wall.
TLDR: the number of rings in the glass's stem
Underrated comment
Dude your videos are getting more and more interesting and informative day by day, keep it up, I really appreciate it!
I think it's fitting that "sommelier" is pronounced like "smelly yay"
I am stealing this fun fact for my next wine tasting.
"At least this will kill the next four minutes of your life"
That hit too real
So you're telling me that my church has been serving Mountain Dew Baja Blast this whole time?
The Baja blast kept getting me and it was hilarious
"Let's learn how to do something that you don't really need to learn and also probably won't ever use but hey at least this will kill the next four minutes of your life."
AKA every UA-cam video I watch.
For me there is also some history, so learn what ppl did and also probably won't ever use but hey at least this will kill the next four minutes of your life
KILLING TIME?!
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it!
@@Just_a-guy Learn history so you don't repeat mistakes already made.
@@theregalproletariat As in so you stop wasting time or so you don't end up as a wine taster?
@@Mo_Mauve Unrelated comment.
I was talking about learning from all kinds of mistakes people made in the past.
this enhanced my wine knowledge 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Even on my worst days this channel makes me genuinely laugh
HAI smell the year of these bricks 🧱🧱🧱
I've learned so much, I will remember this next time I pair Taco Bell's finest Chalupa with a glass of Mountain Dew Baja Blast!
Everytime I watch your videos, I end up laughing my head off! Keep up the fantastic work!
I’m forever going to call my mouth “the wine hole”
We need a master sodalier for all the Baja Blast Facts
I read the title as "How Some Liars Can Taste Which Year Wine is From"
Now I want a Mountain Dew Baja Blast, for some reason.
The wine color doesn't depend on the climate of the wine region but on the grape varieties. Wines made with Grapes like Pinot Noir (grown in different climates) have more of a translucent red color because of the thin skin. It's the skins that give the colors.
There are many factors. You're right that varietal matters, but climate does too. You mentioned Pinot grows in many places, and it can look different in the glass depending on whether it's warm or cool climate Pinot. Wine-making techniques, e.g. whole bunch fermentation, used by the winemaker also affect colour as does whether the wine was fermented in oak or tank.
These Baja blast jokes give me life
Somm here. This was really well done! Still waiting on getting mountain dew on a blind flight though...
42 - This video became FULLY INTERESTING once I realized I was # 1
@no way back ?
@@heidirabenau511 It's just a youtube bot spamming for attention
The other video with your face doesn’t have comments on, but I just wanted to say that you are freaking adorable. Of course we all imagine you as a middle-aged dad in a suit and tie, but I think you look great!
I always assumed a sommelier was just an alcoholic trying to disguise their addiction as a job.
"I mean, some people drink it by the crate, but that's not being a connoisseur, that's just plain sloshed."
My father Is a Máster Sommelier. But Is always hella busy and rarely talks about how His work works. I was always curious of how did he guess every aspect of a wine. Father did give hints and notes, but this video ties It all together
As a Master Sommelier, I feel like you did an incredible job. Sharing now!!
Didn't that scientist from France debunk wine tasting? I'm sure that Masters that have studied for 30 years are fairly accurate, but your average wine snob can't tell the difference between a $5 bottle of Yellow Tail and a $500 bottle of Y 2020.
So for all that training, how do we explain those experiments where sommeliers are routinely fooled by "lesser" wines?
Depends on the sommelier, the best have no problem with that. Here's a Master of Wine (similar rank) telling white from red: ua-cam.com/video/sN83j5ZOUm0/v-deo.html
What I've learned is that many of these tests that 'prove' the difference can't be told are done on wine experts (who don't specialise in taste). And then a MS or MW replicates the test and they'll tell the difference no problem.
Blind tasting is incredibly hard, and people who can truly do it are rare, but definitely exist.
they were not the best trained sommeliers and were the lower level ones
The thing sommeliers are consistently fooled on is price. Since wine prices can be totally arbitrary. Seems like they can be pretty consistent on the rest
@@monhi64 You also have to factor in that if you dye a wine red, say 'this is a red wine', it has a huge psychological impact on human perception; which is another one of those tests. It doesn't so much prove wine tasters are bad, just that humans are hugely suggestable and subjective creatures.
@@kauske so wine tasters and snobs are kind of pointless with how subjective human taste is.
Thanks HAI! I can now tell the difference between wine and Mountain Dew Baja Blast!
Wait so swirling the wine and watching the droplets gives you more accurate info on sugar and alcohol than just tasting it? Those are the only two I think I could reliably taste
I think _"accurate information"_ may be the wrong way to see it: think of it as *more* information. of course you can taste sweetness and even alcohol, but how much you taste is hard to measure, plus it can be affected by other flavors. think if it like you need to measure some space for a bookshelf, and all you have is two sticks you don't trust the markings on. you use both of them, and it gives you a range of what's possible. if you buy a bookshelf that's close to the middle of that range, it's probably going to fit.
one thing to keep in mind about measurement is that *_all_* measurement is relative. we only think some measurement is absolute because we're used to fancy systems like grams and so forth, where the basis for comparison is hidden.
Our taste buds are surprisingly unsophisticated. There is often no way to tell one sweet substance from another. And wines have some compounds that can taste sweet but are not sugars. That's even more true for ethanol, which is more easily detected by its dryness and texture than its actual taste. But wine has other compounds that affect dryness and texture too. So getting more info can help.
no
The jokes in this vid were total fire.
I never would think of a HAI video where mountain dew Baja blast would be mentioned twice
0:08 Litrally every school but that 4 minutes is replaced with 5 hours.
Smithsonian and others had huge articles a few years back that cheap wines technology has caught up and there’s virtually no reason for expensive wine anymore in terms of taste
As with cheese, coffee, and chocolate, once you aren’t buying the worst kind, any moderately priced cheese or chocolate will taste “good” ie. Totally pleasant.
But, if you want more interesting flavors, you may need to find a slightly special one which will either cost more because it is harder to make and maybe a little extra if it is very popular and a lot of people want it but there isn’t very much to go around due to the size of this particular crop, cacao grove, vineyard, or cheese maker.
So to get a good tasting product like coffee you can do that for quite cheap maybe $10 per bag instead of $6 for the cheap stuff. But if you want to try something with a apraxia’s floral note for example, you may need to buy a dry processed single origin coffee that would cost $15-25 per bag.
@@zaydansari4408 I taste a huge difference between $5 wine and $20 wine. More expensive than that doesn't seem to make a huge difference.
The tech maybe caught up but certain processes like hand harvesting, high quality oak, prolonged aging and reduced yields add to the price of the wine, also replicating certain regions climatic and soil conditions is next to impossible without buying grapes from more expensive regions.
There is definitely a point where reputation and collectors push a price beyond its worth taste-wise. Yeah, 2 buck Chuck is a decent wine. But you can definitely get more nuance and flavor profiles from a more expensive wine. I think the price point where price starts to deviate from actual taste improvement is around 100 dollars US. But not all 100 dollar wines are better than 2 buck chuck either. As in any industry the name on the label can increase the cost - sometimes without warrant.
@@SirWussiePants 2 buck chuck is not decent wine. It supports large industrialized wine production by big corporations that exploit workers and pollute a lot. Manipulation is also rampant and the taste is far from okay. Spend more for an honest product please. Wine should be as cheap as possible NOT CHEAPER than possible.
The concept of wine school made me laugh good job 😂
Yeah, imagine devoting so much time and effort toward learning about something so frivolous. Talk about a bullshit job...
Master sommeliers can't tell the difference in quality between a $5 bottle of wine and a $5000 bottle of wine, the whole profession is a joke other than their extensive knowledge on variety
I've worked with so many sommeliers of various levels. They are making it up to a man(and woman). Have yet to meet one that can pass even basic tests of their "knowledge".
I so believe you...
Depends on the sommelier, the best have no problem with that. Here's a Master of Wine (similar rank) telling white from red: ua-cam.com/video/sN83j5ZOUm0/v-deo.html
What I've learned is that many of these tests that 'prove' the difference can't be told are done on wine experts (who don't specialise in taste). And then a MS or MW replicates the test and they'll tell the difference no problem.
Blind tasting is incredibly hard, and people who can truly do it are rare, but definitely exist.
@@MikeJBeebe Plenty of blind wine tasting studies and experiments have been done, and they show that most sommeliers are full of shit.
I live in Napa Valley, I am near 400+ winery's and my county has hundreds of acres of vineyards. And I can confirm, that I will never use the information I just learned in a realistic scenario because Im a peasant here and all I do is harvest the grapes.
baja blast has such an aesthetically pleasing color
One of the funniest episodes yet.
I really like to think some dude told the others "I am a professional wine taster" just in order to not having to search for a real job and getting free alcohol and afterwards people turned it into a real science.
Less than two minutes in and I’m already blown away by how much stock wino footage there is.
I was already drunk when I started the test. And I apologize to the couple I took the bottle from. I know I'm not a professional and that doesn't give me the right to "borrow" that expensive bottle of wine from you guys. I need help.
1 tiny step missed, smell the wine before the swirling stage as well as after☺ jeeeeee a subject I know stuff about🤣😂
This could be the best channel on UA-cam.
3:45 was the point where you really got to me.
The best part about this is the ending when he says “you could just read the label”
On a long plane ride like you mentioned, do I watch curiosity stream or use audible?? Your super convincing ads are conflicting
1:46 okay that audibly made me laugh out while i was at my toilet
How to become a Sommelier in 2 steps
1. Look at the Wine label
2. Google the Wine
Literally this. It's now a superfluous position.
Aaahhh! Mountain Dew Baja Blast! I see you are a man of culture as well. 🧐
Was hoping he'd say "All those planes would have been a nightmare without our sponsor, Wendover Productions."
How many wine stock footage did he use for this video?
Perfect go-to-sleep video
I wonder if we could build a winetasting robot...
Also... what did you just say about getting a free book to keep from Audible each month if they don't have anything you like? I didn't quite catch that...
Yes, a calibrated HPLC machine.
Wine Expert: "Château Mouton Rotschild, Bordeaux, 1961"
HAI Staff: "Moutain Dew Baja Blast, City of Industry, Thursday"
Ok, operation soda steal is coming soon and now I can't wait for it
See, swirl, smell, taste. They forgot to feel the wine and hear the wine.
I'm a vinedresser (tend to vineyards) can confirm 90% of us don't know this stuff, we're just there to cut the vines, tie them up, and fish the rats and snakes out of the vats before they go to the winery. We also make fun of the wine tasters behind their backs
That subtle corn syrup flavor...perfection in an aluminum can
After watching this, you cannot convince me that sommeliers aren't just playing Geoguessr professio nally, but with wine.
Great video 👍
I've suddenly got a craving for some Mountain Dew Baha Blast.. OH!! I see what you did there, HAI!!
This would be the best party trick
So which foods pair well with Baja Blast?
Why the topic Suggestion link in the description doesent work?
this is an excellent mountain dew baja blast ad.
Thanks, now I really want mountain dew baja blast
The scenes at 3:41 are probably the funniest thing ive seen in an HAI video
Finally… my wine hole!
For some reason I read the title and thought all Simoleons had the super power of being able to taste which year wine is from. I just woke up.
as aways ur my favorite closet comedian laol+
Why do you put me on Baja Blast like that?
Wait which episode of "Let's Learn How To Do Something That You Don't Really Need To Learn And Also Probably Won't Ever Use But Hey At Least This Will Kill The Next Four Minutes Of You Life" is this? I'm intrigued...😅
secret project could this be a video about the secret art of brick tasting
MORE WINE CONTENT!!! Do a video on the logistics behind vintage release!
1:30
I feel so attacked lmao
Why does Life have to be so complicated, just let me drink my wine in peace!!
This is what I came here for, well-thought out humour and punchline after punchline! You've outdone yourself here Sam