wine snobs

[miriam_e]

It always gives me the pip when I overhear people talking about the qualities of wines.

It is a poison! Get over it! Let's be honest here. It is something which has one use only: getting intoxicated. That doesn't always mean blind drunk -- it can mean a relaxing glass with a meal, but it differs only in degree.

The aesthetic pleasure of wine is an illusion. Remember your first drink of wine? How revolting it tasted? That is how wine really tastes. If you think it tastes nice now then you have been conned by the simplest of pavlovian responses. The pleasure centers of your brain look forward to intoxication and generate a nice feeling when you drink the wine. You have associated that with the taste and mistaken the taste for the source of pleasure. So why does a Brown Brothers wine taste better than a cheap cask? The latter also has other, less pleasurable poisons, for example sulphur dioxide, added to prevent spoiling. And what about the supposed health benefits of wine? I think that was the most brilliant P.R. job of the century. I have read far more believable surveys (in my opinion) that showed the healthiest, longest lived people turned out to be Seventh Day Adventist teetotalers.

If you drink wine then for heavens sake be honest with yourself: it is to get yourself off.

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[iphinome.livejournal.com]

I liked my first drink of wine, it was a peach flaovred white wine that had sat out all during rosh hashana services giving it lots of time to breathe. It tasted nice. Now my second glass of wine that made me cringe.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the reason I wrote Brown Brothers wine is because the only wine I've ever tasted that I liked was made by that winery. It really surprised me at the time.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

I really like some white wines. They are generally sweeter and I like a sweet wine. I can't quite comprehend those who drink red wines. I once went to a restaurant and ordered red wine (not knowing any better) and had to add three packets of sugar to it. (Yeah, I know - no class! LOL)

And if you really want to get down to good -
Morgan David grape wine is awesome. Tastes like wonderful grape juice. Morgan David in America, along with 'Ripple' are supposed to be the wines of choice for homeless alcoholics - so I suppose it is true then, I really do have no class. LOL

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

:)
Letting yourself be classed downwards by the kinds of wine you like is really buying into the whole deception propagated (unwittingly) by the wine snobs themselves. They don't realise that there is actually no great advantage in the wines they tout, and that their devotion to their favorite plonk is just a result of pavlovian association of a taste with their preferred drug, added to the snob-value of thinking that the exclusivity of expense automatically equates with "better".

If you like a wine then your enjoyment is just as valid as theirs.

I gotta say I like grape juice... though apple juice is even nicer. :)

I should mention, I guess, that I'm not anti-drug, and not anti-alcohol (though I don't drink). I just don't have a lot of time for snobbery based upon "my drug of addiction is better than yours" delusions. If people like something then that is great. I hope they understand their reasons for liking an intoxicant... but it hardly matters if they don't. :)

wine snobs

[jenna2.livejournal.com]

Ahh how I long for the days of cringe now wine snobs Annie Green Springs and utoh! Night Train my mothers personal out on the town fav.
Yes Mims I did survive the Hurricanes all high and dry sipping my Boonesfarm looking out my back door.Watching the cows swirl on by.. wait no that was wizard of OZ.. see what intoxication does. But I did get to see other stuff flying about and that was kinda kewl. al tho I am looking forward to taking the boards down off my windows after season..

Be well
Jenna