The entire of the article is that the contest is a sham, not a comparative thing about the subjectivity of taste. Bad wine clearly stands out as bad. Bad wine

The entire of the article is that the contest is a sham, not a comparative thing about the subjectivity of taste. Bad wine clearly stands out as bad. Bad wine doesn’t mean “wine you don’t like”. It means “technically flawed wine such that even if you liked this wine you would be very unlikely to prefer it to others in its category”.