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

Immanuel Kant, who agreed vision was “noblest,” scorned taste and smell as “nothing but senses of organic sensation.” (He singled out smell as the “most ungrateful” and “most dispensable” sense, which “it does not pay to cultivate.”)