226% boost in cognitive capacity? From a scent, delivered to a population which is old enough to be experiencing subtantial age-related smelling loss?
Is it just me? If so what am I missing?
> Conflict of interest > > ML and MY have received travel expenses and compensation following presentations at P&G.
A 3x improvement maybe not really be all that surprising. Smell is a pretty strong sense when you're young but it doe's fade when you get older, especially after the age of 60. It may be rewiring/re-energizing neural connections that are getting rusty (so to speak).
Should be pretty easy to test on one's self but you might have to be 60+ years old to get those results.
An obvious next step would be a controlled test to see what happens with those folks.
Seems to me it'd be worth a shot if you were close to someone dealing with that. I can't see how it could hurt.
So if there is some neurotrophic result from any increase due to scents, then whatever it is, may be good.
Probably, yet somehow so many cultures still developed fermentation.
I personally have a really poor sense of smell.
I can drink horrible wine, and it wont bother me... my girlfriend on the other hand was Cellar Somm at the most famous restaurant in California, and has a nose for wines that are in the out-of-reach for most people.
There is a wine maker, Mark Jessup - the winemaker for the infamous Opus One... his current winery is fantastic, his statement was that the price limit one should do for "really good drinkable wines" is ~$150 MAX. Diminishing returns after, unless you have other ties to the price of the bottle.. but a ~$90-~$150 bottle is going to give you the best dollar for decanting. (https://www.jgregorywines.com/about_us)
Else, drink what you like...
But if you look at Harlan and such (even against screaming eagle) - they are amazing, but are just in the next tier of budget (just like grinding an RPG, level up - bigger numbers, same basic relative stats.)
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I do recommend Cadueces Maynard James of band TOOL...
Best ~$90 bottles
Always order over phone and request signed bottles by winemaker. (in general)
A curse akin to perfect pitch. Red wine gives me a headaches and I think $10 bottles of Moscato taste wonderful.
Leaves more room in my budget for things that my palate can comprehend, which mostly derive from malted grains.