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The Genetics of taste and smell

Your genetic structure may determine the wines you like to taste and smell. Some people have a genetic makeup that lets them like everything. These lucky souls are called "supertasters."

America (Country Appellation)

Your Genetics May Determine
The Wines You Prefer

Do we have a genetic makeup that determines everything we taste and thus like and dislike?

by Dan Berger
April 21, 2008



DropCap  For the last few years, a number of long-time wine industry observers, many of them in England, have addressed what they believe to be a great fallacy in the scoring of wines on a rigid, numerical basis. Their criticism is that a small number of mostly American evaluators seem to be smitten by a style of wine that the critics view as antithetical to the classic view of what a great wine ought to be.

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