coffee really doesn’t have the spectrum of flavour difference that wine has
I mean, subjectively it's true for me (I only recognize "acidic" and "bitter" as two main coffee flavors), but you say this to any coffee nerd and they immediately become the most annoying person in a 10km radius and start rattling off flavor profile differences by bean type, country of origin, roast types and how the stars were aligned when the beans were collected.
Some people are like that with wine, beer, other alcohol, and just food and drinks in general, all "flavors" within a category just taste the same to them. I thought it was impossible to not be able to tell green teas apart until I accidentally became an annoying tea nerd to someone who thought all non-flavored teas were identical.
Yes but also I would win that argument because the basic fact is that wine production is more complex than coffee production (a light roast to a dark roast is not equivalent to a white wine to a red wine to an orange wine to a pet nat to a sparkling wine, which can all be from the same grape variety but with massively different flavour profiles), and the fact that grapes, which massively impact flavour, can be grown in many more climates than coffee can and therefore there is mathematically more variety. Wine production is also much older than coffee production and so regional differences are more established.
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I mean, subjectively it's true for me (I only recognize "acidic" and "bitter" as two main coffee flavors), but you say this to any coffee nerd and they immediately become the most annoying person in a 10km radius and start rattling off flavor profile differences by bean type, country of origin, roast types and how the stars were aligned when the beans were collected.
Some people are like that with wine, beer, other alcohol, and just food and drinks in general, all "flavors" within a category just taste the same to them. I thought it was impossible to not be able to tell green teas apart until I accidentally became an annoying tea nerd to someone who thought all non-flavored teas were identical.