Can you actually taste the difference between a £7 and a £57 bottle of wine?

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White wine I mean - I don't drink red but apparently it's more obvious.

I ask as we did a blind taste test last night, 5 bottles of different supermarket Pinot Grigios and a £50 bottle (from someone whose boyfriend works at a proper wine shop).

Although none of us are experts (not through lack of practising!), we all had different favourites and only 1 correctly identified the expensive bottle.

Got us thinking - is it all a bit of a con or are we just complete uncouth philistines?

Between £7 and £57 yes of course. I can taste the difference between a £7 one and a £10 one!

I don't think I could tell, though there are definately wines I like and don't like - I don't think it's price related though. Not that I'm out there buying much over £20 (or £10 really).

We do have a bottle of Hungarian red that was gifted to us a while back. I looked it up the other day and that year is now selling for £150+. I'm not (nor DH) a big red drinker so feel it would be wasted on us, but what on earth do you do with it??

We usually buy wine around £10 to £15 and I think it tastes much better than the cheap plonk we drank as students. As Pp mentioned about wine flights for tasting menus, they are usually expensive and the wine I've had has always been delicious and smooth and only on wine flights do I seem to be able to mix red and white without having a stinking hangover the next day. However having said that I always enjoy a lovely bottle of Sauv Blanc from Costco that costs around £7!

These are reds and as the OP has acknowledged there is a noticeable difference in reds