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nordic_yankee t1_iy1ignx wrote

Reply to comment by Gemmabeta in Drink Masters on Netflix rides the line between "mildly interesting" and "this is the most pretentious shit ever" by jcwitte

"Somm" is a great doc about people trying to pass the incredibly difficult Master Sommelier certification.

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Gemmabeta t1_iy1iv8z wrote

Didn't that entire generation of sommeliers end up getting disqualified over a cheating scandal?

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jephw12 t1_iy2xgo0 wrote

No. That film came out in 2013. That scandal was with the 2018 exam.

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CoolAbdul t1_iy3nu4g wrote

I know of a famous sommalier who has faked his entire career. It's amazing to see.

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Zuzublue t1_iy1q3xm wrote

Tell me more!

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Gemmabeta t1_iy1qnr1 wrote

One of the proctors leaked all the answers for the tasting portion of the 2018 exam (widely reputed as the hardest--by a vast margin--portion of the 3-part Master Sommelier exam) to two people.

And because the group of test-takers each year is so small and they are all in constant contact each other for study and practice, it was impossible to know how many people got the leak.

And so they just blanket disqualified everyone and made them all retake the test next year.

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theg2 t1_iy4ld7o wrote

I don't know...the people focused on in that were also strongly in the 'this is the most pretentious shit ever' category, what with the guy getting a separate apartment away from his fiance so he could 'study'.

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powerlloyd t1_iy4xmu7 wrote

I know a guy who did this for the bar exam.

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theg2 t1_iy4yqxh wrote

One of these things is not like the other though. The people followed in 'Somm' really came off as douche bags.

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whyte_ryce t1_iy5ki3r wrote

Was that the one where some poor girlfriend was always having to clean up all their wine shit after a night of "studying" and everyone was too hung over to bother to help? And the one guy would always be shit talking and joking about everyone else but immediately have a meltdown and say everyone takes it too far the second someone would good naturely poke at him?

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