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Susan Lin

Jun 1, 2026

4:45
[laughs] And, you know, when you taste a wine, seriously, as, as, Susan, you're a, you know, master of wine, what are you actually paying attention to? What separates a disciplined evaluation from someone like me say, "Oh, I like this," or, "I don't like this"? 'Cause I know you have a lot more systematic approach.
5:02
First of all, uh, one's own subjective tastes have absolutely nothing to do [laughs] with the evaluation of the wines in question.
5:12
Really, it's about building one's own data set as a taster to be able to effectively, uh, have enough to draw upon to make a reasoned and sound judgment about assessing a wine.
5:25
So there's two things, especially for the master of wine here.
5:27
We're talking about the theory behind the wines, like what are the regions, what are the grape varieties, what are the different expressions that occur in the different regions, et cetera, et cetera.
5:38
All the, all the, you know, permutations and, and, um, combinations that you can get from different grape varieties and what people are doing in different regions of the world.
5:46
Say, I mean, there could beIt could be quite specific, you know, um, grapes like mostly Xinomavro is, is, is, you know, going to be from Greece, but more people are, are growing it in different areas of the world.

14 MINS LATER

19:31
I'm sure, uh, what you did has some data science component to it as well.

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