(Wines&Vines) - Drinking wines with high alcohol levels can influence the perception of other wines, especially those with lower levels of alcohol, according to findings of a study presented this week during the national conference of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV). Speaking at the ASEV meeting in Portland, Ellena S. King reported the findings of a project she conducted with Randy Dunn and Hildegarde Heymann of the University of California, Davis, indicating that when a panel of tasters evaluated wines grouped from the lowest levels of alcohol to the highest, the tasters found the higher alcohol wines to be far more flavorful and interesting than the preceding wines with low-alcohol levels.