Wine Snobbery
A blog posting I read on Fermentation last night sparked up a pretty interesting conversation. In Sugar and the Mental Gymnastics of the Wine Drinker, Tom Wark brings up the following points:
Traditionally, simple palates and novice drinkers like sweet wine, while experienced palates and dedicated wine lovers like dry wines.
Despite being a part of the latter group, he's been craving sweet wine. And doesn't give a damn what the others in the wine community think.
Thoughts? His last point, however is what piqued my interest:
I wonder however if that superior attitude that many serious wine drinkers have doesn't too often drift out into the world of would-be-wine-consumers and turn them off.
Which prompted me to post this comment:
Your last point is dead on. "Serious" wine drinkers attempt to be the tastemakers, the Beverly Hills society page martini moms and country club dads. Yet all too often, they blather themselves into irrelevance, talking just to hear their own voice.
No wonder beer is so popular—nobody cares if the stout drinkers think the lager drinkers lack sophisticated taste buds.
Thanks for being a part of the Dark Side.