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

Morgan is nose-blind to rotundone, the chemical that gives Syrah its black-peppery scent. And yet that wouldn’t stop him from saying he smells rotundone, if all other signs point to Syrah. Failing to do so would cost him points.