For 18 months, she shadowed renowned wine fanatics, hoping to understand their obsession and to become a certified sommelier herself. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyShe gets a quick, boozy education, and so do we. Eventually, she interrogates the entire notion of wine expertise, which in turn raises the biggest question of all: What does make a wine great? Especially if, as one damning study found, most judges in a California wine competition gave contradictory ratings to the same bottle of wine every time they tasted it? And if a wine economist explains that there’s little correlation between quality and cost once a bottle exceeds $50 or $60?

Source: New York Times March 22, 2017 22:30 UTC