Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all connoisseurs.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Fran? ois Pinault bought the £10.3m bull, a perplexing move for the owner of Christie's, a connoisseur with minimalist taste.
And, in the 15th century, the Dutch invented the famous grid patterns that transformed waffles into the optimal syrup and whipped cream delivery systems celebrated by junk food connoisseurs centuries later.
But, if scientists are telling us taste is largely genetic, what about restaurant critics and wine connoisseurs, people whose job it is to tell us what to eat and drink?
We've recently reorganized a bunch of our support levels with new perks, including the opportunity to submit a dad joke and have it read by me, a connoisseur of fatherly humor, a joke like this one perhaps.
Digital analysis is invading the world of the connoisseur JUDGING artistic styles, and the similarities between them, might be thought one bastion of human skill that machines could never storm.
Then Sherlock Holmes cocked his eye at me, leaning back on the cushions with a pleased and yet critical face, like a connoisseur who has just taken his first sip of a comet vintage.
" You are a thing of beauty and a joy forever, " said Jo, looking through her hand with the air of a connoisseur at the blue feather against the golden hair.
I consider myself a connoisseur of brilliant lunatics, and I have a high tolerance for their lunacy if it has compensating virtues of, say, humor or ingenuity.
As long as one strives to become a gourmet or a connoisseur of wines because it is the in thing to do, striving to master an externally imposed challenge, then taste may easily turn sour.