Somewhat disappointed, since I don't like wine either and I was hoping this could help explain why, but my tastes seem to be diametrically opposed to the author

Somewhat disappointed, since I don't like wine either and I was hoping this could help explain why, but my tastes seem to be diametrically opposed to the author's. I even like strong alcohol of other sorts- I've recently grown to like whiskey, since >10% beer is hard to find in my area. The frustrating thing is that there is a very definite aspect of wine that makes me dislike it, but as far as I've been able to determine that same taste doesn't appear anywhere else, so I've never been able to describe to anyone what that is. The science here makes me wonder, though, if someday someone will popularize a quantitative framework for people's differing tastes. Imagine an app where you take a picture of your tongue and it categorizing your taste-sensitivity on however many fronts, and recommends a restaurant. Or via a genetic test- 23andme could pay for some of its customers to take Dr Marks' taste-test-battery, and work out the correlations. People love to be categorized, and here's a way to do it that's directly impactful on their everyday lives (and in particular, on a social aspect of their lives.)