For the Love of Plonk...

[Jenise]

I am not sure you were even rendering a value judgment against susceptible people's integrity of pleasure, but I thought I would make this point, anyway, for all the blokes that keep squeaking about the undesirability of being fooled or unduly influenced.

No, definitely wasn't rendering judgement. In fact, I'd say that power to enhance pleasure would be, in a lot of situations, quite enviable!

Oddly enough I find myself in agreement with Covert on this one.

I post notes for selfish reasons - to create a searchable data base of my own notes so that I have a hope of finding them again in future.

I don't do it hoping that others will post responses, as I agree that if I said I assessed a wine a particular way and someone else pops up and says they had a totally different response to that wine, it isn't going to change my opinion one iota. I know what I tasted, and what someone else may have thought about a different bottle, while mildly interesting, isn't what I am seeking by posting.

Don't get me wrong, notes posted often result in interesting threads on wineries, winemakers and wines, but that isn't my reason for posting, it is just a windfall when it happens.

The idea of being "fooled" is simply an incorrect concept, unless one wants to convert his wine to water or a bunch of worthless chemicals.

For the avoidance of doubt, I agree. I use the word in this context only as a shorthand for what others might say, and quotation marks around it to try to emphasise that.