Aims

The aim of this study is to investigate whether latitudinal proximity affects the pairing quality of cheese and wine. To do so, we performed a blind experiment with 36 wine-cheese pairings, rated by 10 blind expert judges. The experimental design showing the number of ratings per pairing can be seen in this table:

herve leerdammer manchego munster roquefort tetilla
alsace 10 10 10 10 10 10
galicia 10 10 10 10 10 10
gelderland 10 10 10 10 10 10
languedoc 10 10 10 10 10 10
limburg 10 10 10 10 10 10
rueda 10 10 10 10 10 10

Summary Data

First let’s have a look at the distribution of ratings:

plotMeanCI(tasting$distance, tasting$rating, tasting$pairID, main = '', ylab = 'Pair Rating', xlab = 'Distance', pch = 16)