Training and Sommeliers

Sidelined, Or No Pain, No Gain

Mac Crane | Offing | 9th October 2025

Former college athlete and self-described jock explains the confusing desire to keep training when badly injured. "Even now, I still lift every day, and I often lift to excess. I want big, strong muscles, but I also want that old sore feeling back, that pathological embodiment, that can-think-of-nothing-else-but-the-pain, it hurts so good. My pain and pleasure wires have not necessarily crossed, but maybe fused" (4,000 words)

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The Myth Of The Sommelier

Cremieux Recueil | 9th October 2025

Can oenophiles really claim to be better judges of wine than the average imbiber? Is there even such a thing as an objectively "good" wine, as opposed to one that you personally happen to like? This investigation would suggest not. For decades, so-called inferior wines have been winning expert blind tasting contests. In competitions with many entries, the judges almost never agree (4,600 words)