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Mr Chase Sinzer, a partner at the wine bar Stars, talking to customers at right at the establishment in Manhattan on March 11.

Mr Chase Sinzer (second from right), a partner at the wine bar Stars, talking to customers at the establishment in Manhattan on March 11.

PHOTO: HIROKO MASUIKE/NYTIMES

Eric Asimov

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Like many people, Mr Spencer Herbst finds choosing wines in restaurants to be stressful. He likes wine, he said, but considers himself relatively uninformed.

“It feels like a quiz you didn’t prepare for,” he said.

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