Nobody is born able to pick a grape out of a blind glass. It is repetition and comparison, built the same way for everyone.

Look, swirl, smell, sip, savour — what each step is actually for, and why most of what you call taste is really smell.

When wine tasting, that is. Why professionals do it, when you should consider it, and why you almost certainly should not tonight.

No spittoons, no tasting notes, no exam. Just six glasses lined up in the right order and a decade of assumptions about what you like, corrected in one evening.