Blind tasting video flips wine hate
A new YouTube piece 'I Tasted the Most Hated Wines in the World…' used blind tasting and found that some widely ‘hated’ labels showed unexpected complexity — reputation often outweighed palate reality. The host highlights how tasting blind equalizes context and expectation, challenging meme-driven or review-driven biases in wine perception. (youtube.com)
The clip was posted by Konstantin Baum, who became the youngest German to earn the Master of Wine qualification in 2015 and runs the retail imprint baumselection as well as the education platform Cellar Class; his YouTube channel lists about 204,000 subscribers. (mastersofwine.org, konstantinbaum.com, youtube.com) (mastersofwine.org) Baum blind-tasted eight bottles in this episode: Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label (Champagne), Pommery POP (Champagne), 2024 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc (Marlborough), 2024 Rombauer Chardonnay (Carneros), Barefoot White Zinfandel (California), Patritti “Lavoro” Sparkling Shiraz (McLaren Vale), 2022 Kanonkop Pinotage (Stellenbosch) and the 2023 Apothic Red Winemaker’s Blend. (youtube.com) (youtube.com) Those eight selections span five countries—France, New Zealand, the United States, Australia and South Africa—and range from brut Champagne to sweet White Zinfandel and a sparkling Shiraz, as listed in the video description. (youtube.com) (youtube.com) The video’s description reproduces a 100-point scoring rubric (96–100, 90–95, 80–89, etc.) that Baum included to contextualize his tasting notes and numerical assessments. (youtube.com) (youtube.com) Two of the featured labels, Apothic and Barefoot, are positioned and marketed as high-volume, consumer-oriented wines with sweeter, fruit-forward profiles according to their producer pages and trade listings. (apothic.com, barefootwine.com, wine-searcher.com) (apothic.com) This upload continues a recurring format on Baum’s channel: recent videos include other blind or “controversial” tasting frames such as “I Tried the Most Controversial Wines in the World!” and “Blind Tasting the Wine Everyone Loves to Hate!”, showing a pattern of testing polarizing labels. (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
