People often talk about Burgundy as the most complicated wine region in the world, but mastering the differences between Barolo's 11 and Barbaresco's three villages, not to mention the array of wine styles, would reward a lifetime of study.
Even my mum does, despite not having fully mastered the difference between a click and a double-click yet.
But while there is some interplay between Jordan's films and novels, he has also mastered the difference between genres.
Although most came decades ago, it was not until recently that restaurants opened featuring traditional Persian fare, catering to those of us who had never mastered the difference between baghali and zereshk (rice dishes distinguished by their spices).
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, similarly evocative of the British landscape, showed its author, Patrick Barkham (helped along by an underworld cast of butterfly aficionados), master the difference between pearl-bordered and small pearl-bordered fritillaries and how to spot hairstreak eggs in February in a blackthorn hedge.
If you can master the differences between Trinec of the Czech Republic and Trencin of Slovakia, or Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Metallurg Novokuznetsk of Russia, you can follow your favorite N.H.L. players overseas.
This fuels suspicion that Iran really wants a bomb, or the capacity to build one at speed.Iranian officials acknowledge that, once the techniques for making uranium and plutonium are fully mastered, the only difference between a civilian nuclear programme and a military one is intent.
He discovered that mastering the fundamentals is what makes the difference.
Her attempts to smooth over their differences by mastering the language of fruit (Carl often started conversations, "I am going to give you a quiz") are at once comic and tinged with regret.
There are also some fine distinctions to master, like the difference between wheat and barley.
