Blind faith: Eliza Dumais on our obsession with tasting blind

Portrait of the blindfolded goddess of justice Themis isolated on black background with copy space, as a legal conceptGenerally speaking, I prefer to know what things are before I put them in my mouth. The wine world, however, maintains a near-obsessive fixation on the opposite practice: Tasting blind a game whereby you might find yourself paying $90 for a bottle of you-don’t-know-what simply for the love of sport.
As it happens, when the simple act of drinking beautiful things and derivin