Cork Dork: A Wine-Fuelled Journey into the Art of Sommeliers and the Science of Taste

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They don’t just serve wine, they have the expertise, charm, calm, and overall knowledge of not just wine but what go with wine.

If you have sen wine-focused films such as Somm, some of the scenes that Bosker describes will be familiar to you. This book may not be the end all, be all of the world of wine, but for a rookie like myself, it offered a peek into their world, and I will never approach a glass of wine in quite the same way.Connoisseurs consider processed wines the enological equivalent of processed foods, if not worse,” Bosker wrote.

It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in wine, whether you are a seasoned expert or a novice. I think a lot of people, understandably, categorize wine and wine tasting as pretentious, elitist nonsense – and despite my own genuine fascination with wine, I honestly wondered how much of it was genuine myself. Was this backlash against her nothing more than a bunch of wine snobs disconcerted at having their snobbery exposed? An informative and riveting read that doesn’t take itself too seriously—a much needed dose of reality the wine world could benefit from.Bosker was trained by Grieco to serve as a sommelier in this fashion, and it’s how she operated on the floor of Terroir. With one caveat, I'd like to highly recommend the newly released Cork Dork by journalist and aspiring wine nerd Bianca Bosker. Scientists only realized some 70 years later that the whole tongue is sensitive to each of the five tastes – that is, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. The one aspect of the book that occasionally turned me off is the fact that one of the main recurring characters, a sommelier and friend of the author’s named Morgan, hews very closely to that tired old trope, the brilliant eccentric man who can also be extremely annoying.