list of driest to sweetest--red and white

[Thomas]

Roberto, two days ago I told a "child-wine salesman" that the best way to sell to me does not inlcude coming into my shop and telling me that some of the wines on my shelf are not as good as the ones he sells; I politely threw him out, and I was particularly pleased when his book, which I threw after him, landed at the back of his stupid head. I have been consuming and studying wine for thirty years; he just started selling it after his tech stocks tanked.

Re, booze: accepting slang to identify a person, place or thing is a slippery slope activity. In my neighborhood--a few centuries ago--"you suck" or "you scumbag" were fighting words, for their connotations. Now those phrases are acceptable, but they lower common discourse, not to mention that they have changed their original meanings.