Aug 3, 2026 · 30 min · 13 segments
Join us today as we discuss what makes a wine good? It might be a simple question, but the answer is surprisingly subjective and complicated.
Have you ever pretended to like a wine? Of course.
Really? Yeah.
Well, if you're at a wine tasting and you're talking to the producer and you kind of smooth over that you didn't really like the wine, it's like sometimes it's nice to be polite.
I guess social survival does win sometimes.
Definitely.
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Have you ever pretended to like a wine? Of course.
Really? Yeah.
Well, if you're at a wine tasting and you're talking to the producer and you kind of smooth over that you didn't really like the wine, it's like sometimes it's nice to be polite.
I guess social survival does win sometimes.
Definitely.