
There’s something about wine experts that misleads people. Wine tasting has become typical of the privileged class, who spend their days drinking deep glasses of swirling Pinot Noir. This negative view of wine experts is not only wrong, but part of a general devaluation of our sense of smell.
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle wrote: “Our sense of smell is not accurate and is worse than many animals, because humans smell terrible.” Humans’ sense of smell is still considered weak. According to a British study, it…
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