Personal retrospective and testimonials do not establish accuracy rates or controlled validation. The anomalous Condrieu bottle cautions against defining a category from one sample.
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Jackson describes moving from flavor clues to structural comparisons during wine examinations and repeated half-blind tasting of known sets. Pepper led him to mistake Grenache blends for Syrah; a Condrieu example challenged an oak-driven guess. A footnote says a later bottle of that Condrieu was not oaky.
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Development through comparative practice, not a validation experiment
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Jackson describes moving from flavor clues to structural comparisons during wine examinations and repeated half-blind tasting of known sets. Pepper led him to mistake Grenache blends for Syrah; a Condrieu example challenged an oak-driven guess. A footnote says a later bottle of that Condrieu was not oaky.
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Personal retrospective and testimonials do not establish accuracy rates or controlled validation. The anomalous Condrieu bottle cautions against defining a category from one sample.
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