Phoebe Sklansky is a senior editor at Food & Wine, where she specializes in kitchen product reviews. She's passionate about finding the best kitchen deals and trends to make cooking easier (and ...

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FOR A WINE LOVER, being credited with a “good palate” may be the highest form of praise. I’ve praised fellow oenophiles thus and have been praised in return. But what do we really mean by these words?