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.

Comments

[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.