> the ability to take someone's description of what they like and match it to what's on their wine list
Absolutely, I worked in a wine store for years and it was always awesome having a customer come back and buy more bottles of something I recommended.
> What there is not, however, is any kind of absolute standard for what constitutes a "good" wine. Different people like different things.
This is me with Eastern U.S. wines. I understand that conventional wisdom poo-poos Vitis labrusca (even though it saved European wine!) but I do love foxy wines from that region.
Absolutely, I worked in a wine store for years and it was always awesome having a customer come back and buy more bottles of something I recommended.
> What there is not, however, is any kind of absolute standard for what constitutes a "good" wine. Different people like different things.
This is me with Eastern U.S. wines. I understand that conventional wisdom poo-poos Vitis labrusca (even though it saved European wine!) but I do love foxy wines from that region.