The pleasures of wine: Are they all in your head?

The pleasures of wine: Are they all in your head? (The Charlotte Observer)
American wine drinkers are taking their turn as pop culture’s punching bags. In press accounts of two studies on wine psychology, consumers have been portrayed as dupes and twits, subject to the manipulations of marketers, critics and charlatan producers. One of the studies was devised by food writer Robin Goldstein to try to isolate consumers from outside influence so they could simply …