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The wine delusion

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people are the more likely they are to pick store brands (Bronnenberg et al., 2014). If we<br />

flipped it around a bit, it makes sense the other way too. That is, if people simply<br />

recognised the <strong>wine</strong> market’s absurd complexity as an illusion to stay fancy, disregard<br />

advertising appeals and fluffy citics, the unfair bias against cheap <strong>wine</strong>s would become<br />

redundant. While this isn’t the case for many other experiential goods, it certainly holds true<br />

to <strong>wine</strong>. Whether people find their true preferences or learn anything about <strong>wine</strong> at all, they<br />

can at least be happy by merely knowing that a $10 <strong>wine</strong> can give them a $100<br />

experience. Or as Goldstein and Asimov believe, will motivate people to strip experts of<br />

their undue reverence, stay humble about not knowing <strong>wine</strong>, and be bold enough to wear a<br />

sceptical hat when it comes to picking <strong>wine</strong>.<br />

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