Every fruit and vegetable has its own unique taste, more or less consistent from year to year.  You count on consistency in food and ingredients that go into preparing it. Otherwise, cuisine would be marred by too many variables.

While you can generalize about most food, not so with most wine.  While certain winemakers consistently produce outstanding wines, even so, each vintage is different.  Everything changes, year after year: grapes, growing conditions, aging in the barrel and in the bottle.  Each wine and each taste is unique.

You cannot generalize about wine any more than you can people, who are more like “wine” than other food.  Every raspberry tastes like a raspberry; vanilla smells and tastes like vanilla.  In wines you often will taste fruits that help identify what is happening with your palate. 

You may evaluate someone based on first or second impressions. An analog with wine would suggest that as grapes go through changes throughout their cycle of existence, so do people.

Ironically, daily life is grounded in so much generalization that you tend to assume what is coming next, which results in dulling your senses to opportunities for different outcomes than ones based on what you already “know” of others.  

If a bottle of wine can surprise, why not a person you know or have recently met?

What happens when someone you know surprises you with the unexpected?

How could reflecting on wine as ever changing affect your perspective on change in people?

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