wine snobbery

[Thomas]

Nancy, yeah! It came to me one evening when a winemaker frined and I visited someone we had just begun to know. He invited a few others for what was to be a wine discovery evening. The sentences about wine that flowed from one of the men attending sounded like they had been finely edited for print, until I relaized the guy was reciting what he had been reading. When at one point he began to describe a wine we were tasting by saying, "Parker says," both my winemaker friend and I jumped down his throat and asked if he saw Parker anywhere in the room with us. We asked him, "What do you think of the wine?" To which he had no coherent response, but did say he had a cellar full of the expensive stuff, bought after reading the Wine Advocate.

I've got four cases in my cellar and it is a revolving situation. I lay down few wines, figuring that life is ever too short and unpredictable to think that I could save a good bottle of wine for somewhere in the distant future. If a wine will live a few years, I consider it for the cellar but then find myself sidetracked by a wine that is so good to drink right now -- that is the one I buy, pre