Everyone at the table hates the Wine

Why do otherwise rational people spend all this time and money on something that eventually becomes expensive pee? Bianca Bosker, Cork Dork

Does expensive wine actually taste better? Or did you hear the price first and decide to enjoy it?

Somewhere in Paris, a table full of adults is holding glasses of something they quietly dislike, nodding along while a man in a linen jacket calls it "austere." Nobody says a word, because "I don't like it" is how you fail an exam nobody told you about.

This week we look at how a drink became an intelligence test, why your opinion suddenly needs a vocabulary before it counts, and who exactly decided any of this. The answer is uncomfortable and has very little to do with grapes.

Pour something you actually like and drink it in silence, like the rest of us.

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