And you thought wine judging would be easy!

As many have learned, wine judging is not the easiest job. For the uninitiated it may seem like fun, but once you have sampled past a certain point, your taste buds do not really care how good the wine is.

The column from LATimes (may need a one time registration) titled, "To Sip and Spit With the Experts" does a nice job of describing one novice's experience in a wine judging contest.