Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

by Bianca Bosker

I’d missed the deadline to enter as an official competitor, but I sweet-talked the Grand Echanson, head of the Chaîne’s wine activities, into letting me participate in the semifinals, which included blind tasting, theory, and service.

It's lines like this that annoy me.