“A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.”

Wish the film had stuck to the book. A culture vulture like Lecter wouldn’t be seen dead guzzling a common country wine plonk like Chianti. Amarone della Valpolicella is so much more like him.

It is so true that human perception is so deceiving.

One way that a “more true” wine tasting can go is with the blind tasting, so there are no ways to have perception come into play, except the palate…

I guess it needs to now be blind and silent tastings!

But the error rate in wine tasting can be pretty big.

I’d be interested to see if someone like a master sommelier can get duped as well.

But just about anything can ruin some thing good, so I can see how music can affect wine taste.

So serve the cab with some pearl jam and a nice rack of lamb.