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What does wine taste like at 30,000 feet? Do I really care, is a better question!

Started by Ryan Opaz · 9 months ago

I’m like the rest of you, or at least the majority of you, I fly coach. Never been bumped to business, 1st class or otherwise. I guess it’s probably because I never flew much. Not that I’m afraid, I just prefer to spend time on the ground seeing things% ... Continue reading »

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  • Joe

    2 years ago

    I rarely end up in the front of the plane, but I recenty did an impromptu tasting of wines at 30,000 feet on Air Canada (<a href="http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile ">http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile high). Unfortunately, I have not tasted these at ground level, but I can say that the Air Canada business class wines are reasonably well chosen. Cheers!
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  • Joe

    2 years ago

    I rarely end up in the front of the plane, but I recenty did an impromptu tasting of wines at 30,000 feet on Air Canada (<a href="http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile ">http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile high). Unfortunately, I have not tasted these at ground level, but I can say that the Air Canada business class wines are reasonably well chosen. Cheers!
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  • Joe

    2 years ago

    I rarely end up in the front of the plane, but I recenty did an impromptu tasting of wines at 30,000 feet on Air Canada (<a href="http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile ">http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile high). Unfortunately, I have not tasted these at ground level, but I can say that the Air Canada business class wines are reasonably well chosen. Cheers!
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  • Joe

    2 years ago

    I rarely end up in the front of the plane, but I recenty did an impromptu tasting of wines at 30,000 feet on Air Canada (http://joeswine.blogspot.com/search?q=mile+high). Unfortunately, I have not tasted these at ground level, but I can say that the Air Canada business class wines are reasonably well chosen. Cheers!
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  • bbennett

    2 years ago

    As we all know, the only way to find out what these wines REALLY taste like at 30,000 (approximately) is to summit Everest and try them, or de-pressurize the cabin.


    For the curious among you, standard cabin pressure is defined as the equivalent of 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, depending upon the airplane. Personally, I live at 600 feet, and wine tastes the same to me whether I'm in Minneapolis or in the mountains. Of course, this is an unsubstansiated claim on my part.



    What we have here is a marketing ploy created solely to sell wine (and a rather insidious one at that).
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  • bbennett

    2 years ago

    As we all know, the only way to find out what these wines REALLY taste like at 30,000 (approximately) is to summit Everest and try them, or de-pressurize the cabin.

    For the curious among you, standard cabin pressure is defined as the equivalent of 5,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, depending upon the airplane. Personally, I live at 600 feet, and wine tastes the same to me whether I'm in Minneapolis or in the mountains. Of course, this is an unsubstansiated claim on my part.

    What we have here is a marketing ploy created solely to sell wine (and a rather insidious one at that).
    reply

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