wine snobbery

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Difference between a wine lover and a wine snob: a wine lover buys wine he likes to drink -- a wine snob buys wine he likes to talk about.

If you read about, talk about, and study wine for the love of the grape, you're a wine lover. If you do it to prop your flaccid ego, you're a wine snob. Anyone can shell out big bucks and follow Parker like a lemming, but it takes a true love of wine to develop and trust your own palate.

That dork with 20,000 bottles of wine is unbelievable. I hate hearing about all the lovely bottles that a collector is hoarding to show off to his friends while the wine inside is going to waste. Give those wines to the people who are actually going to *drink* it, will ya?

Once you gain some knowledge of wine, it's kinda fun playing with the wine snobs' minds and watching them put their feet in their mouths. True story: I played dumb and asked a wine-snob wannabe about what wines I should buy, and he proceeded to tell me that Chablis is a grape!