I hate to say it, but taste in wine his highly subjective, while taste in cheese is not.
There was a recent incident where somebody (I can't recall off hand who it was) set up a wine tasting with some experts. They had them blind test a wine, then without them being told, had them retest it twice more - the same wine put into different bottles. The responses they got were wildly divergent. Some tasters rated the wine highly the first time(with suitable superlatives), but panned it the second or third time with sometimes harsh invective.
The fact that it was the same wine each time sort of calls into question the ability of tasters of wine to be consistent (to say the least). Granted that was only one study, but you get the point. Whenever perception is the reality, you'd better watch out.
My brother collects wine but he doesn't often rely on professional tasters or
"experts" to determine what he buys. He is fond of saying, "I know what I like". He delights in the fact that according to him, he has consistently been able to buy wines that many of his connoisseur friends rate highly, which he bought for a song, while others he has paid high prices for were merely good, not great.
Cheese is cheese. It's either good or it's not. I'm not aware of anyone who claims that cheese has anywhere near the wide spectrum of "interpretation" connected to it that wine has. One may like or dislike a cheese type, but it's not like people crack the rind, sniff it, sample it and mark down on a scorecard how it compares to other cheeses of the same variety.
Of course, the minute I post this it is all-but-inevitable that someone will post a link to some group of "cheese experts" who do exactly that.
I will tell anyone who offers me a taste of cheese that costs $10 a bite what I tell my brother when he offers me wine that costs $10 a swallow - save it for someone who can actually tell the difference!
