On Cicerones, Sommeliers, and The Cult of The "Expert"
On Cicerones, Sommeliers, and The Cult of The “Expert”
For at least the past twenty-five years, I’ve had no fewer than a dozen inquiries/requests each year, along the lines of “Why don’t you/Do you have plans to…get your sommelier certification?” One Seattle guy who administers the tests basically offered to put the fix in; test me at my convenience, with a vague intimation that he would “give me a heads-up about the rough patches.” I always…
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