January 6, 2018 @ 11:34 am
Big Rick Hardly Strictly Wine Blog
Do you remember the last time you had a glass of wine on a plane? Did it taste flat, bland? It probably was, although through no fault of its own. Wine simply tastes different on a plane at 30,000 feet. Let’s explore the reason why.
As a plane travels through the air it periodically exchanges the air in the cabin with outside air. That air is frigid and extremely dry. Before it is released into the cabin its warmed up and humidified. The air is still rather dry though, much drier than what most people are accustomed to.
