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Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine... until she stumbled upon the alternative universe where taste is the supreme sense. Fascinated by the almost superhuman sensory powers of sommeliers, Bosker launched herself into their world to see if she could become one of them. With humor and skepticism, Bosker takes us to exclusive restaurants, massive wine regions, and through a neurological study to answer a compelling question: Why do we care so much about wine?

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"""Reads like a wine lover's equivalent of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' There is paradise, but only after glimpses of purgatory and hell...A funny, thought-provoking and at times frightening look at the sublime tastes, enormous egos and curious rules of a profession that is both insanely rigorous and occasionally ridiculous.""--Associated Press, ​on the English-language edition"

Reads like a wine lover's equivalent of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' There is paradise, but only after glimpses of purgatory and hell...A funny, thought-provoking and at times frightening look at the sublime tastes, enormous egos and curious rules of a profession that is both insanely rigorous and occasionally ridiculous. --Associated Press, on the English-language edition

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Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist that has written about food, wine, architecture, and technology for various publications such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The New York Times Style Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and the New Republic.

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