My wine group and I participated in Saturday morning ritual tastings at Marché Bacchus Bistro and Wine Shop before the COVID pandemic. We irreverently referred to those gatherings as “going to church.”
So why is it that the overwhelming majority of official wine tasters and critics are men? It's not because they're better at the sniffing or tasting. It's because they have better memories. And because they don’t go through menopause.