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

It took almost a century, until about the 1970s, to figure out that the tongue map was bogus, a scientific gaffe arising from a mistranslation of a German student’s 1901 PhD dissertation.