C. Thi Nguyen

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Two Percent with Michael Easter · #25: Why Numbers, Scores, and Metrics Make Life Worse | Thi Nguyen · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

This is part of the magic of wine, right?

If you have wine with food, it reacts.

The wine changes.

The taste of the food changes.

There's often some interaction.

And some folks, Robert Parker most famously, wanted to make a more objective wine scoring system.

And so they needed to be able to test wines against each other and rank them against each other and give them some kind of score.

But the problem is if you have wine with food, that's too variable, right?

Like if I have one wine with chicken and I have another wine with sushi and I have another wine just with some chips, like maybe those things are interfering with each other.

Yeah.

So to render objective judgments, they created a wine scoring environment, a judging environment in which they removed food, which was a highly variable, highly context-specific factor.

And they judged wines against each other without food.

But this...

points us in the direction of a different kind of wine.

So this is what gives us what are now called fruit bombs, right?

So a lot of modern wines have big flavors, explode on the palate, are really loud, but they don't interact well with food.

They don't do anything interesting.

They don't do anything dynamic.

They don't have this live, vibrating, resonant, changing flavor.

weird thing that was what so many people loved about wine in the first place.

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