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

Another common misconception is that the tongue is your body’s only taste interpreter. In fact, there are taste receptors on your epiglottis, as well as in your throat, stomach, intestines, pancreas, and, if you’re a man, your sperm and testes.