Part of the appeal of good wine for me is the social aspect of discovery, and I don't think I'd want to trade that in for a technical one. I don't want a perfec

Part of the appeal of good wine for me is the social aspect of discovery, and I don't think I'd want to trade that in for a technical one. I don't want a perfect wine so much as I want to drink a sincere recommendation from a friend or family member, and hopefully have that same wine again with them, and have something to talk about. In fact when I'm with certain people, even bad wine is fondly remembered. "What was that chalk we were drinking last month... I crave it when I think of you."* The funny thing about all this is that his big data quest for more good wine was launched because of the same reason I enjoy wine: It was his brother-in-law's recommendation that found him his favorite, not crunching the #cassis #vanilla #persistentfinish numbers. And he's doing this to find bottles similar to the one from a beloved family member, most of which are far more expensive (eyeballing the graph), but if I were him, I don't know if I could ever find a better bottle than "my brother-in-law's wine." Isn't sentimentality worth more than the data, especially when working with the most fickle data-set of all? Also, come on, don't make a post like this and not give us the list! * (We were drinking Troublemaker, a Paso Robles blend, which I swear is 50% syrah and 50% limestone.)