wine tasting is a fake profession and sommeliers cant tell the difference between red wine and white wine with red food dye in it recommend interpreting the metaphor in the quoted tweet with this in mind https://twitter.com/Virtual1nstinct/status/1395765589445066758 …
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you ultimately have to ask yourself what seems more plausible, that a small set of rarefied people have supernatural abilities to taste things, or that a luxury goods industry has built up a cult of Experts to justify absurd prices for grape juice variant's
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today I woke up and chose violence and im sorry for that. let me say to the oenophiles of the world that I enjoy a fine glass of award-winning wine myself. I offer this toast in peacepic.twitter.com/FfImdVq19J
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I will confess that I don't understand how the reference applies
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one of the biggest Ls in french historyhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_of_Paris_(wine) …
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fwiw my friend who was serious about cooking as a kid and worked fairly successfully in restaurants and as a chef for twenty years, recently became a sommelier at a big time fancy restaurant and may have won some awards for it so i think there's something real there
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we give awards to Experts of every stripe, its how they establish Prestige
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