Is there a wine liking gene

I like wine

CheezeHole wrote:

Seriously! I find any wine to taste horrible. I nearly gag it on the way down. The only reason for it to go in my body is for a buzz and prefer to go the quick shot of whiskey route anytime.

... Yet there are people out there that are by no means well off that spend tens of thousands to store it, drink it and travel towards it. There is even a wine themed marathon.

This cannot all be pretend. And, unless there is some genetics going on there is no way anyone could really like the taste and enjoy it that much.

I gots to know.

It's is an acquired thing. Right now you are in the first grade. When you get your PhD you'll have the refinement to know better. Many start with sweeter wines and then learn the nuances of the great ones.

A single malt does have much to recommend it though.

Rats want to know.

Yeah it's the same gene that masks the basement dweller phenotype

So let me understand. It's an acquired taste. So that means at some point you did not like it but for some reason made yourself like it. What drove you to drink stuff that tasted like poo?

Or like another poster said, perhaps you just wanted/want to be someone that likes wine?

Eveyones taste is different. For instance some people like salty snacks some like sweet snacks, mant tend towards things with chemical heat and others love sour treats like dill pickles, sourballs , Lemonheads and Sour Patch Kids candies . Same goes with wine and a million other taste choices.

There is a natural range of taste perception ( do a search on supertasters)that impacts how and why we like certain tastes and dislike others.

Try different things you never know what you like or dislike without experimentation.

It is perfectly OK to not like how something tastes even if others like its taste.

CheezeHole wrote:

...drink stuff that tasted like poo?...

If you think wine tastes like poo I suspect you need either to drink higher quality wine or eat lower grade poo.

Hey, when I started with the beet juice and bicarbonate a couple of weeks ago, it tasted like dirt.

Now I like it.

The wine in the box that tastes like kool aid is pretty good. At least it was in college when I used to drink. You could chug that stuff.

CheezeHole wrote:

So let me understand. It's an acquired taste. So that means at some point you did not like it but for some reason made yourself like it. What drove you to drink stuff that tasted like poo?

Or like another poster said, perhaps you just wanted/want to be someone that likes wine?

Think of it like your first rim job. As a kid poo is icky and you don't want to be within a few feet of a nether region and yet here you are today going round the outside like Tony Hawk in a corkscrew vortex, amirite?

CheezeHole wrote:

So let me understand. It's an acquired taste. So that means at some point you did not like it but for some reason made yourself like it. What drove you to drink stuff that tasted like poo?

Or like another poster said, perhaps you just wanted/want to be someone that likes wine?

All tastes are acquired and change over time. This is especially true for alcoholic drinks which pretty much all taste like crap at first. Nobody starts off drinking beer like a coke. Give a kid like 3 months and they progress to chugging it like a frat boy.

And even more obvious is how peoples booze taste changes over time. Sorority girls chugging white zinfandels and frat boys doing bud light are cliches for a reason. People start with simple drinks (sweeter wine and piss respectively) and tend to progress to more complex stuff (wines with tanins and beer with hops) as their tastes change.

Wine business is a scam

Winos seem to like it.

You don't like wine. You aren't the first or last.

Move on.