But we’re so easily swayed by price tags and elegant labels, it may take a blind tasting to figure that out. Despite the advent of more fun-loving wine events, wine slushies on State Street and “bro-sé,” wine still has an aura of elitism as a hobby. With the exception of real wine pros, tasting blind — or at least partially blind; we could see the color, knew the grape and worked with descriptions — gets almost everyone on the same level. The best way to organize a blind tasting is to have one person pick out all the wines and bag them in advance (drinkers should kick in to defray costs). These bold reds ranged in price from $2.99 for a bottle of Charles Shaw California Shiraz (available at Trader Joe’s) to $52 for a high end northern Rhone red.