Listen to a group of people describe wines, and before long, you’re certain to hear someone say that a wine “tastes like wet stones.” Understandably, you might be taken aback. After all, this person appears quite rational, and yet they’re comparing a glass of fermented grape juice to a river bed, where apparently, they’ve spent ample time searching for lickable rocks. Whether or not that’s how they spend their free time, we can’t say, but what they’re really getting at is that the wine has “minerality.”