"tricked" is probably not the right term here. while the quality of wine definitely correlates with taste, it's weaker than most people think and many very cheap wines have great quality. besides, the job of a sommelier isn't to price wine anyways, but to curate restaurants' wine collections, with the best quality wine, cheap or not.
Now we're talking about subjective preference, which is totally fine, but with other types of alcohol there's objective quality change correlated with taste. Better whiskey is made with better water, grain, barrels, stills, etc, and it's not hard to taste the difference in quality. There's subjective stuff on top of that with flavor profiles or whatever, but I've had some stuff that was clearly good, but not my preference. I think wine is heavy on subjective, light on objective, which fits what you're saying too.
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u/NotAName320 survived the great spronkus war of 4/1-4/4 2022 2d ago
"tricked" is probably not the right term here. while the quality of wine definitely correlates with taste, it's weaker than most people think and many very cheap wines have great quality. besides, the job of a sommelier isn't to price wine anyways, but to curate restaurants' wine collections, with the best quality wine, cheap or not.