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Wine did not just lose market share. It lost cultural clarity. In Taste Curves: The Science of Generations and the Future of Wine, Darin Szilagyi pulls wine out of the tasting room echo chamber and into the real world where consumer behavior, cohort shifts, and decision friction decide what ends up in the cart. Using generational science, intent signals, and modern consumer data, Taste Curves explains why wine started drifting while culture sped up, and why the industry kept trying to fix demand with the same old playbook. This is not a nostalgia tour. It is a diagnosis and a path back. You will see how today's wine story broke across three pressure points: Identity gap: wine started selling status and theater instead of authentic taste and craft. Occasion gap: wine lost its easy, everyday moments. Trust gap: hype, pricing games, and performative virtue diluted belief. What sets Taste Curves apart is its data driven map of wine enthusiasts by generation. Each cohort is treated as a distinct consumer ecosystem, revealing: What they reliably repeat buy and what makes them churn Which cues create confidence at the shelf and which create friction How they discover wine now: retail, restaurants, DTC, friends, critics, social media What occasions still belong to wine, and which ones wine surrendered Then the book flips from critique to solution. Gen X becomes the stability play, ready to be reactivated with less friction and more clarity. Millennials become the modernization play, where honest cues and flexible occasions win. Gen Z becomes the stewardship play, where transparency and restraint earn permission. If you care about where wine goes next, whether you are a producer, retailer, marketer, or a drinker who wants the category to feel fun and understandable again, Taste Curves gives you the framework, the language, and the moves to make wine cool for the right reasons. Wine has a future. It just needs to stop guessing and start reading the curve. Written by the editor of Wine X Magazine.

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